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In 1543 Portuguese explorers reached Tanegashima Island, off southern Kyushu, followed over the next decade by Portuguese traders and Jesuit missionaries, headed by St Francis Xavier, who landed at Kagoshima in 1549.
The sailors’ first landfall was on the little offshore island of Tanegashima, which has progressed from matchlocks and muskets to being Japan’s principal rocket-launching center.