History・Yokosuka

Opening of Japan route

'City of the Opening of Japan' is Yokosuka's nickname referencing Perry's 1853 landing and the city's role as the first place where Western industrial technology took root in Japan, from the Uraga and Kurihama negotiations to the founding of the Yokosuka Ironworks.

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