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HAKODATE

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 829 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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town on the See also:south of the See also:island of See also:Yezo, See also:Japan, for many years regarded as the See also:capital of the island until See also:Sapporo was officially raised to that See also:rank. Pop. (1903) 84,i46. Ita position, as has been frequently remarked, is not unlike that of See also:Gibraltar, as the town is built along the See also:north-western See also:base of a rocky promontory (1157 ft. in height) which forms the eastern boundary of a spacious See also:bay, and is See also:united to the mainland by a narrow sandy See also:isthmus. The See also:summit of the See also:rock, called the See also:Peak, is crowned by a fort. Hakodate is one of the ports originally opened to See also:foreign See also:trade. The Bay of Hakodate, an inlet of Tsugaru Strait, is completely See also:land-locked, easy of See also:access and spacious, with deep See also:water almost up to the See also:shore, and See also:good holding-ground. The Russians formerly used Hakodate as a See also:winter See also:port. The See also:staple exports are beans, See also:pulse and peas, marine products, See also:sulphur, furs and See also:timber; the staple imports, comestibles (especially salted See also:fish), kerosene and oil-cake. The town is not situated so as to profit largely by the development of the resources of Yezo, and as a port of foreign trade its out-look is indifferent. Frequent steamers connect Hakodate and See also:Yokohama and other ports, and there is daily communication with Aomori, 56 m. distant, whence there is See also:rail-connexion with See also:Tokyo. Hakodate was opened to See also:American See also:commerce in 1854.

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civil See also:war of 1868 the town was taken by the See also:rebel See also:fleet, but it was recovered by the See also:mikado in 1869.

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