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Yokohama


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Yokohama

Place Type
political
Description
Visited by Commodore Perry 1854; site of foreign settlement after 1859; harbor completed 1896; extraterritorial rights of foreign settlement abolished 1899; almost destroyed by earthquake & fire 1923; largely destroyed by US bombing 1945, later rebuilt.
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Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)

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