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The port of Hyogo miogokas due to be opened fiom 1January 1863,but, as a result of the
unsettled state of Japan in the 1860sand repmentations from-the Bakufh, the opening of the port
was postponed until 1January 1868.The port actually chosen for foreign residence was at a spot
just around the bay from the town of Hyogo, and came to be called Kobe.
