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Hakodate
Hakodate is a port city in southern Hokkaido, Japan, on the Tsugaru Strait. It was one of the first Japanese ports opened to foreign ships under the treaties of the 1850s, and the star-shaped fort of Goryokaku was built there in the 1860s. In 1868–69 it was the base of the short-lived Republic of Ezo, whose surrender after the Battle of Hakodate ended the Boshin War.
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