Shimoda (下田市, Shimoda-shi) is a city and port in Shizuoka, Japan. The city is located at the southern tip of the Izu peninsula about 60 miles (97 km) southwest of Tokyo. Shimoda location, with the Amagi Mountains to the north, and the warm Kuroshio current to the south give the city a humid, sub-tropical climate.
In the 1850s, Japan was in political crisis over its increasing inabiliy to maintain its national seclusion policy and the issue of wha...
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Shimoda (下田市, Shimoda-shi) is a city and port in Shizuoka, Japan. The city is located at the southern tip of the Izu peninsula about 60 miles (97 km) southwest of Tokyo. Shimoda location, with the Amagi Mountains to the north, and the warm Kuroshio current to the south give the city a humid, sub-tropical climate.
In the 1850s, Japan was in political crisis over its increasing inabiliy to maintain its national seclusion policy and the issue of what relations, if any, it should have with foreign powers. For a few years, Shimoda was central to this debate.
Shimoda has been settled since prehistoric times, with numerous Jomon period remains found within city limits. It is mentioned in Nara period documents as the location to which Prince Ōtsu was exiled in 686 after his failed rebellion, and in Heian period documents in reference to its iron ore deposits. During the Sengoku period it was controlled by the Hōjō clan, who built a castle (later destroyed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi). Under the...
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