Francois Caron

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Francois Caron was one of the heads of the Dutch East India Company factory in Nagasaki.

He had five children with a Japanese wife, all of whom relocated to Batavia in 1641.

References

  • Gary Leupp, Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900, A&C Black (2003), 8.