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Thank you. Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, episode 133, The Fall of the Samurai, Part 16.

Before we get into it, one quick announcement.

If you're in the area of the Pacific Northwest and you don't have any plans for the long weekend of March 24th to the 27th, well, I may have a suggestion for you.

I will be attending Northwestcon in the fabulous town of Cetack, Washington as a panelist this

year, on a variety of panels that I actually don't know the names of yet because they haven't

been announced, but it'll probably be something history related or military history related.

And if any of you have a chance to be there, well, I'd love to see you.

So, come to NorwestCon if you can make it. I'll be publishing details on Facebook page and on

Twitter once I know what panels I'll be on. So, let's pick up where we left off, with the final

holdouts against the new regime.

The final holdout was, of course, up in the city of Hakodate on what was then called Ezzo,

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