Editing Dejima (section)

==Reconstruction==
[[File:C1870`s Nagasaki Dejima Island.png|thumb|A photo of Dejima Island, {{circa|1870}}]]
The [[Dutch East India Company]]'s trading post at Dejima was abolished when Japan concluded the [[Treaty of Kanagawa]] with the United States in 1858. This ended Dejima's role as Japan's only window on the Western world during the era of [[Sakoku|national isolation]]. Since then, the island was expanded by [[reclaimed land]] and merged into Nagasaki. Extensive redesigning of Nagasaki Harbor in 1904 obscured its original location.<ref name="ETM47">Edo-Tokyo Museum exhibition catalog, p. 47.</ref> The original footprint of Dejima Island has been marked by rivets; but as restoration progresses, the [[wikt:ambit|ambit]] of the island will be easier to see at a glance.
[[File:Edo-era Dejima within modern Nagasaki.jpg|thumb|right|Edo-era boundaries of Dejima island (outlined in red) within the modern city of Nagasaki]]

Dejima today is a work in progress. The island was designated a national historic site in 1922, but further steps were slow to follow. Restoration work was started in 1953, but that project languished.<ref name="ETM47"/>  In 1996, restoration of Dejima began with plans for reconstructing 25 buildings in their early 19th-century state. To better display Dejima's fan-shaped form, the project anticipated rebuilding only parts of the surrounding embankment wall that had once enclosed the island. Buildings that remained from the [[Meiji period]] were to be used.

In 2000, five buildings, including the Deputy Factor's Quarters, were completed and opened to the public.  In the spring of 2006, the finishing touches were put on the Chief Factor's Residence, the Japanese Officials' Office, the Head Clerk's Quarters, the No. 3 Warehouse, and the Sea Gate. In total, some ten buildings throughout the area have been restored.

In 2017, six new buildings, as well as the Omotemon Bridge (the old bridge to the mainland), were restored. The bridge was officially opened in attendance of members of the Japanese and Dutch royal families.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hollandkyushu.com/en/project/opening-ceremony-omotemon-bashi-bridge/|title=Opening ceremony Omotemon-bashi Bridge|website=hollandkyushu.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-01-25|archive-date=2018-01-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125134700/https://hollandkyushu.com/en/project/opening-ceremony-omotemon-bashi-bridge/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Long-term planning intends that Dejima will again be surrounded by water on all four sides; its characteristic fan-shaped form and all of its embankment walls will be fully restored. This long-term plan will include large-scale urban redevelopment in the area. To make Dejima an island again will require rerouting the Nakashima River and moving a part of Route 499.