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This article is great, though it does omit one modern offshoot of this ancient alliance and that is the CD-ROM. Developed in collaboration between Phillips in Eindhoven and Sony in Tokyo. I've heard that the meeting of the two companies is actually related to a state visit between the two countries' monarchs.

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Fun fact. the hole of a CD-ROM is exactly the size of a "dubbletje" (10 guldencent). The currency in the Netherlands at the time the CD-ROM was created.

My memory may be hazy, but I thought it was the size of a 'kwartje' (25 cts)

It's also missing the my favorite children's animated series "Alfred J. Kwak" [1]. A Dutch-Japanese collaboration notable for it's exceptionally mature treatment of very difficult topics such as apartheid, environmentalism, inequality, doping in sports, facism, etc.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_J._Kwak

Edit: After seeing the series, Tove Jansen allowed the same Dutch-Japanese crew to animate the Moomins in a Dutch-Japanese-Finish collaboration. [2]

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomin_(1990_TV_series)

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