JAPAN. His Britannic Majesty’s Consulate at Shimonoseki 1913.

Certificate of Registration, signed by the Consul Ernest Hamilton Holmes (1876-1957) and by Henry Berger, the Party Registered. 10 x 9 inches, with a 2s 6d Consulate Service stamp cancelled by the handstamp of the British Consulate Shimonoseki. Shimonoseki, Japan, 26 April 1913.

The British Consulate in Shimonoseki was opened at 26 Akama-cho on September 1901 following a report by Sir Ernest Mason Satow, the then British Minister to Japan. It was the first consulate established in Shimonoseki. A new consulate was built at the present location in December 1906. The consulate was used by successive consuls until 1922 and later by acting consuls who took charge of consular affairs instead.