Shimonoseki

Shimonoseki, a town of Japan, at the south-west extremity of the main island and the western entrance to the Inland Sea, was 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. In 1895 a treaty of peace was concluded here between China and Japan. Pop. 30,825.