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Shimoda

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Shimoda (shĭmō`dä), town (1990 pop. 30,081), Shizuoka prefecture, E central Honshu, Japan, at the south extremity of Izu peninsula, on Shimoda Bay. It is an important port for the peninsula. The first U.S. consulate, under Townsend Harris, was opened at Shimoda in 1856. The Gyokusenji Temple, where Harris resided (1856–57), is now a memorial.


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In Japan, eager Beatles fans came early to buy the new remastered box set, said Kozo Shimoda, acting store manager at the HMV music store in the fashionable downtown Ginza shopping district.
In Japan, eager Beatles fans came early to buy the new remastered box set, said Kozo Shimoda, acting store manager at the HMV music store in the fashionable downtown Ginza shopping district.
95); age 9 and up Tai Shimoda lives at the Tule Lake Relocation Center, an internment camp for Japanese-Americans, in this novel set in 1943.
 
 
 
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