The main purpose of this research was to attend 15th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies at the New University of Lisbon (30 Aug. – 2 Sep. 2017,) and exchange opinion about the origin of ‘globalization.’ My topic was ‘Simplified discussion about “Tanegashima”, where is the place of the encounter between the Portuguese and the Japanese,’ in a panel entitled ‘Interconnecting (hi)stories: Reconsidering Japan and Maritime Asia in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,’ organised by KAWATO Takashi. The ‘the encounter between the Portuguese and the Japanese’ happened in the middle of 1550’s. The Portuguese maritime expansion to the Orient confronted the final stage with this connection. In this sense, it can be considered as the origin of ‘globalization.’ However some problems are still left without solving. Can we really interprete it in this way? How was the concrete image of their encounter? As issues for the future, I intended to share knowldge about this topic.

A small literature search at Arquivo Nacional Torre do Tombo followed the attendance to the Conference. Although this archives open great amout of document in public on their internet site, some documents about the seedtime of Macao are not yet.