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A Study on Choryang Waegwan through Dejima as a Modernisation of Japan Kong, Mi-Hee As the sole foreign trade port, Dejima played a bridging role in introducing foreign culture to Japan with the development of business. Though Dejima had a limitation of interaction with surrounding area, life-related medical practice, food ingredients, and essential techniques were naturally conveyed into daily life. For a typical example, the Dutch medicine was introduced into Japan by Kaempfer and Siebold, the doctors for a foreign store. And scholars interested in the new culture gathered from all over the country, as advanced technologies spread abroad through a Dutch interpreter. Knowledge, medical practice, food culture, and technology introduced from Dejima where cultural exchange with the outside was forcibly restricted made life rich and convenient. Dejima was the place where scholars eager to learn something new gathered from all over the country and modernization was provided for the north-east asian sea region. It was Dejima that the shogunate ordered an influential person of Nagasaki to form for the purpose of managing the Portuguese for two years from 1634. In the spring of 1638, the shogunate suppressed the Catholic riot which was provoked in Shimabara peninsula and Amakusa islands, and then the shogunate cut off relations with the Catholic nation of Portugal to prohibit the Catholic religion. Later Dejima became an uninhabited place, which resulted in the loss of trade profits and land use fee and on the appeal of the people who invested in the construction of Dejima, the shogunate moved the Dutch east india company of Hirado to Dejima in 1641. For about 200 years afterwards, Dejima had been the place where employees of the Dutch east india company had made their abode, and the dutch like Portuguese had been placed under surveillance of the shogunate. Therefore, on the basis of the formation of Dejima this paper searches the state of trade, the activities of doctors, and the lifestyle and food of the people and then investigates the aspects and characteristics of Dejima.