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An Imperial decree in July 1899 established Otaru as an open port for trading with the United States and the United Kingdom. [3] The city flourished well as the financial and business center in Hokkaido as well as the trade port with Japanese ruled southern Sakhalin until the 1920s. Otaru was redesignated as a city on August 1, 1922.
Otaru Art Base (小樽芸術村, Otaru Geijutsu Mura) is a cluster of five historic buildings repurposed to serve as art museums in Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan.Established in 2016 and managed by The Nitori Culture Foundation, the complex comprises the Stained Glass Museum (in the Former Takahashi Warehouse (1923) and Former Arata Trading Company building (1935)), the Former Mitsui Bank Otaru Branch ...
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The Otaru City General Museum is a museum established in 1956 (Showa 31) using the former Nippon Yusen Otaru branch in Ironai.Originally established as the Otaru City Museum, it was a museum that focused on the humanities, art and nature; it then moved to the former Otaru Warehouse, (which is now the Canal Museum), in 1985.
In order to promote the dish as part of Otaru's unique food culture, on 1 July 2011 (Heisei 23) the 'Otaru Ankake Yakisoba PR Committee' was established, and between then and 2013 (Heisei 25) a cookery school was opened [22] and an opportunity to collect stamps at restaurants around the town was introduced.
Oldest living Japanese American, 110, shares her longevity tips and the 1 food she eats every day ... along with many other Japanese people, had difficulty finding work upon their release in 1945 ...
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Otaru Music Box Museum (小樽オルゴール堂) is a music museum in the Otaru Orgel-do II building in Otaru, Japan. It includes various examples of music boxes as well as CDs that have music box-esque versions of various songs. Chris Bamforth of The Japan Times wrote that it had an "absolutely phenomenal" variety of music. [1]