Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia · TURNING POINT · 1854–55

Hakodate treaty port (1854–55)

On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “Hakodate”

1854–1855 — The Kanagawa treaty opened Hakodate, on the edge of the Ainu lands in the far north, as the second port for American ships. Russian ships worried the shogunate, which in 1855 took most of Ezo from the Matsumae domain and placed it under direct rule.

When

1854–1855

Type

Turning point

Chapter

Black Ships and the opening of Japan (chapter 2 of Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia)

Atlas

Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000

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