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Shimoda
Shimoda is a port town at the tip of the Izu Peninsula in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Under the Convention of Kanagawa of 1854 it was one of the two ports opened to American ships, and the first American consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, set up his consulate there in 1856. It is now a resort town.
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