The operator of a once-popular Japanese theme park that replicated a 17th century Dutch village has gone bust, becoming one of the largest resort projects to fail after the bursting of Japan's bubble ...

Even Japanese Defense Minister Taro Kono acknowledged ... knowledge about subjects such as medicine and foreign languages at Dejima, a small island in Nagasaki Port, used as a trading post ...

Dejima, once a 15,000 square miles man-made island, was the country's first international trading post, and the only place in the country where non-Japanese merchants were allowed to live during ...