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Hakodate

Seaport in southwest Hokkaido, Japan. Scene of Commodore Matthew Perry's meeting with the Bakufu convention (1854). Together with Shimoda, it was the first port open to trade with US ships and as a refuge for shipwrecked American sailors.

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