Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia · TURNING POINT ·
Hakodate treaty port (1854–55)
On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “Hakodate”
1854–1855 — The second port opened by the Kanagawa treaty, on the edge of the Ainu lands in the far north. Worried by Russian ships, the shogunate takes most of Ezo from the Matsumae domain in 1855 and rules it directly.
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- Black Ships and the opening of Japan (chapter 2 of Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia)
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- Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000
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