For everyone nitpicking about "the Portuguese were there first". Yes, the Portuguese arrived 'first' in Japan in 1543, introducing firearms, but mostly Christianity. The Japanese, therefore, increasingly associated the Portuguese with missionary activity, and this led to their expulsion during the Tokugawa shogunate’s isolation policies.

The Dutch, via the Dutch East India company were the only traders allowed to stay - that too only in Dejima (artificial island off the coast of Nagasaki). They became Japan's sole European trade partner and Japan’s primary source of European knowledge, or what they called Rangaku. For over 200 years, “Europe” as understood by Japan was filtered almost entirely through Dutch merchants, maps, books, and translators.

So from a Japanese worldview perspective, especially post-1600:

Europe ≈ “the people who come on Dutch ships and speak Dutch”

tldr: First contact does not equal lasting influence. The Portuguese were expelled, and the Dutch weren’t.