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About the origins of the website
www.jiten.nl was originally created to preserve the 1934 Japanese-Dutch dictionary by P. A. van de Stadt from falling into oblivion. Although a Japanese facsimile edition was published in 1989, the dictionary was still far from easy to find even in libraries and, moreover, was rarely available for loan. Online, however, anyone can consult it.
For a while, www.jiten.nl was the only online Japanese-Dutch dictionary. By now, modern, full-fledged dictionaries are also available online:
Because many visitors to www.jiten.nl are not specifically looking for a historical dictionary from 1934, I also added a selection of frequently used modern Dutch-Japanese vocabulary years ago. In addition, I incorporated the public-domain version of the aforementioned Japanese-Dutch dictionary 和蘭辞典.
I still maintain the website and continue working on the digitisation of Van de Stadt's 1934 dictionary.
Acknowledgements
Hans Coppens for information about the online dictionary of the department in Leuven. Antoon Kruijer for digitising part of the y, legal advice and moral support. H. P. van de Stadt and H. A. N. Versluys for information about their grandfather and permission to put Van de Stadt's dictionary online. Richard van de Stadt for tracking down the aforementioned grandchildren of P. A. van de Stadt. Oscar Veltink for information about the project for a new Japanese-Dutch dictionary in the Netherlands. Paul Wijsman for lending an original copy of Van de Stadt's dictionary.