Hakoda Bugyosho restored after around 140 years

HAKODATE, Japan - The restored building of Hakodate Bugyosho (Magistrate's Office) is unveiled to the media in Hakodate, a port city in southern Hokkaido, on July 16, 2010. The office, built in 1802 at the end of the Edo Period by the Tokugawa shogunate as an outpost to check Russian moves, was destroyed in 1871. Work to restore the office began in June 2006 and cost 2.8 billion yen, and it will open to the public on July 29. (Kyodo)

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• ILEA000673285

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• 2010/7/16 00:00:00

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