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Originally Posted by Kai13
My father told me that Japan sworda likes Portugal, because they have vocabulary such as "Biidôro" (vidro in portuguese), which means "glass". Do they really like Portugal?
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I'm not sure if Japan "likes" Portugal, but there is a reason why Japanese have many Portuguese loan words in their vocabulary. Portugal was one of the first European countries to make contact and trade with Japan hundreds of years ago. Therefore, the Japanese had to use Portuguese words for the items they got from the Portuguese. Some of those Portuguese words are still used in Japan today.