Portuguese Jesuit Joao Rodrigues won the friendship of Japan's two successive supreme rulers, Hideyoshi and Ieyasu; took an active role in the silk trade between China and Japan; and, serving as the main interpreter between East and West, was one of the country's most influential Europeans.
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