Shimonoseki
a town of Japan, , at the S. W. extremity of the main island and the W. entrance to the Inland Sea; declared a seaport open to foreign traders in 1890. The batteries and a part of the town itself were destroyed during a bombardment by a combined English, French, Dutch, and American fleet in 1864. Here the peace between China and Japan was negotiated after the war of 1894. Pop. (1918) 67,866.
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