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Hiranoya Rokubei served as head of the [[Nihonmachi|Japantown]] in [[Hoi An]] in the late 1630s. He simultaneously served as port administrator for the [[Nguyen lords|Nguyen family]] lords of the region, and as an agent for the [[VOC|Dutch East India Company's]] interactions with trade partners in the city.
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==References==
*William Wray, “The Seventeenth-century Japanese Diaspora: Questions of Boundary and Policy,” in Ina Baghdiantz McCabe et al (eds.), ''Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks'', Oxford: Berg (2005), 86.
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