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Yamate foreigners cemetery gaikokujin-bochi in the hills of Yokohama
At the end of the isolation period in the 1850s, when the
shogunate prohibited nearly all kind of interactions with other foreign
countries, foreign traders were permitted to reside in Yokohama. The
Chinese made themselves a Chinatown in the center of the city, the
Westerners started to live in the hills of Yamate area, which was also
called "The Bluff": The foreign cemetry already started to be used from
1854, when first American and later Russian sailors were buried.
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