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*The Portuguese, collectively, owed more debt to Japanese than to any other Asian lender. Japanese investors and lenders to Portuguese ventures made considerable profits, often charging interest rates as high as 25-30% on their loans, and were able to do so due to the balance of high risk (weather, pirates) and potential for great profits for the Portuguese ventures themselves. Even Macao's city government itself owed considerable sums to Japanese sources. - Wray, 85.
*The Portuguese, collectively, owed more debt to Japanese than to any other Asian lender. Japanese investors and lenders to Portuguese ventures made considerable profits, often charging interest rates as high as 25-30% on their loans, and were able to do so due to the balance of high risk (weather, pirates) and potential for great profits for the Portuguese ventures themselves. Even Macao's city government itself owed considerable sums to Japanese sources. - Wray, 85.
*[[Yokohama]] - formally opened to Western trade on 1859/6/2 (July 1). Opened as the treaty port instead of Kanagawa, which had been stipulated in the Harris Treaty, and which required considerable negotiation to change (move). Foreigners were permitted by the treaty to move freely within a 25km radius, but even so, the bakufu took efforts to isolate them from broader Japanese society, and from any significant locations along the Tokaido. (Kawasaki, Kanagawa, and Hodogaya-juku were still well within this 25km zone, but Shinagawa was probably not) This would serve both the pragmatic effect of keeping them from interfering with anything serious, but also the symbolic effect of showing, or suggesting, that things hadn't actually changed so much. They were restricted to Yokohama as they had been restricted to Dejima, and outside of these few concessions Japan for the most part remains "closed" and continues on as it had. (Tinello, 182-185)
*For [[government of the Kingdom of Ryukyu]]: Ryukyu had yokome 横目 inspectors, too. The Naha yokome was in charge of investigating matters among the people of Naha. He was under the jurisdiction of the Tomari jitô. - Naha shizoku no isshô 那覇士族の一生 (Naha: Naha City Museum of History, 2010), 14.
*For [[government of the Kingdom of Ryukyu]]: Ryukyu had yokome 横目 inspectors, too. The Naha yokome was in charge of investigating matters among the people of Naha. He was under the jurisdiction of the Tomari jitô. - Naha shizoku no isshô 那覇士族の一生 (Naha: Naha City Museum of History, 2010), 14.