Dutch princess attends ceremony in Japan celebrating bilateral ties

Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands attended a ceremony on Friday celebrating the cultural and economic exchanges that took place between her country and Japan during feudal times even when the latter closed its doors to the world.The princess joined Japan's Prince Akishino and his wife Princess Kiko in crossing a just-completed bridge linking the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki with Dejima, a man-made island which served as the country's only gateway to Europe for about 200 years until the mid-19th century."The Netherlands was the only window for Japan to access Western culture duri…READ FULL ARTICLE