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*''Japanese'': 下田 ''(Shimoda)''
Shimoda is a port city on the Izu peninsula in [[Shizuoka prefecture]]. It is known as one of the first [[treaty ports]] to be opened in Japan, along with [[Hakodate]], in [[1854]].
Despite the prominence of its Bakumatsu history, however, Shimoda was already a prominent location since even prior to the [[Edo period]]. A [[siege of Shimoda]] took place in the 1590s.
The privileges granted to the Americans and British in these 1854 agreements were extended to the Russians in the [[Treaty of Shimoda]], signed on 1854/12/21 (on the Japanese calendar) at [[Choraku-ji|Chôraku-ji]] in Shimoda and ratified nearly two years later in St. Petersburg. This treaty is also notable for being the first to officially set agreed-upon national borders between Japan and Russia in regards to the [[Kuril Islands]], and indeed the first to set modern national borders for Japan at all.<ref>Mitani Hiroshi, David Noble (trans.), ''Escape from Impasse'', International House of Japan (2006), 247-250, 292. </ref>
Shimoda is a port city on the Izu peninsula in [[Shizuoka prefecture]]. It is known as one of the first [[treaty ports]] to be opened in Japan, along with [[Hakodate]], in [[1854]].
Despite the prominence of its Bakumatsu history, however, Shimoda was already a prominent location since even prior to the [[Edo period]]. A [[siege of Shimoda]] took place in the 1590s.
The privileges granted to the Americans and British in these 1854 agreements were extended to the Russians in the [[Treaty of Shimoda]], signed on 1854/12/21 (on the Japanese calendar) at [[Choraku-ji|Chôraku-ji]] in Shimoda and ratified nearly two years later in St. Petersburg. This treaty is also notable for being the first to officially set agreed-upon national borders between Japan and Russia in regards to the [[Kuril Islands]], and indeed the first to set modern national borders for Japan at all.<ref>Mitani Hiroshi, David Noble (trans.), ''Escape from Impasse'', International House of Japan (2006), 247-250, 292. </ref>