Yokosuka is located in the central part of the Miura Peninsula, Kanagawa Prefecture. The Western shipyard of the Edo Shogunate was established in Yokosuka in 1856. Uraga port was the destination of the Commodore of the United States Navy Matthew C. Perry who forced Japan to enter into trade and diplomatic relations with the West in 1853 after more than two centuries of isolation. Yokosuka has been
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