The original article provides a list of references. There can be no doubt that they meant ‘Japanese’. I am not on Goa Research net so have not seen your response. Will try to find it. all best. Amitav
]]>One of the top-end culinary delights, now gone secret in many parts of the world, used to be to nibble the brains of a human while said unfortunate human was alive. Made famous in a rather grisly scene at the end of the movie HANNIBAL, but not unknown, apparently, in Vietnam during the war.
But gory aspects apart, since reference has always been made also in the Doon Valley of how Europeans simply ate up many of the cross-breed offspring that emerged, is the fact that reference to Japanese slaves is well documented in South Africa. Conversely, we once met people who were supposed to be mixed breed offspring of Indian men and Japanese women in the Northern Island, Hokkaido.
Here’s some links from a simple google search, now time to activate some more . .
and page 108 of this book:-
The Japanese and the Jesuits: Alessandro Valignano in Sixteenth-century Japan
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ps: I am currently trying to research WW-2 Indian Armed forces and INA soldiers/sailors who were abandoned in Rabaul/PNG and many who were also eaten by both the Japanese as well as the Brits/Indonesians.
This is the opening article on the subject . . .
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