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Jacques Specx was the first opperhoofd (head, or factor) of the Dutch East India Company factory at Hirado. He later served as governor-general of the Company's operations in Batavia (Jakarta).[1]

Specx received a red seal license from Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1611, authorizing him (within the Japanese system) to engage in trade between Japan and Southeast Asia.

References

  1. Adam Clulow, The Company and the Shogun, Columbia University Press (2014), 98.