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Lydon-Japan 2015Saturday, June 20, 2015. Hokkaido and the Black Ships. Clock starts May 17, 1854. The public histories of Hakodate start their historical clocks on May 17, 1854. When the United States squadron of five "Black Ships" rumbled in to Hakodate Bay. Fresh from signing the Treaty of Kanagawa down south in Edo Bay, Commodore Mathew Calbraith Perry had sailed up to Hakodate to examine the second of the two ports opened by the treaty. (Shimoda was the other.). Commodore Mathew Calbraith Perry. Was just as much of ...
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