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KURASHIKI, Okayama Prefecture A feudal warlord was so incensed by the temerity of the United States in the 19th century to dispatch warships to Japan and demand the isolated country open its ports to foreign trade that he plotted to seize one of the vessels and kill the high-ranking delegates on board, a letter from the period shows. ....

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