YOKOHAMA
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A fine
Union Protestant Churches are handsome edifices, situated on the Bluff. cricket and recreation ground exists in the Settlement, and there are well laid out public gardens on The Bluff. There is a fairly good race course situated about two miles from the Settlement. A good boating club also exists, which has provided facilities for deep sea bathing. The Public Hall, containing a theatre and assembly rooms, built of brick, is situated at the top of Camp Hill, and was opened in 1885. The Municipal Offices, a fine brick structure, occupy a commanding site near the Public Gardens. The railway station is also a creditable structure, being a well designed and commodious terminus. The town is now in the enjoyment of an excellent water supply, large waterworks having been completed in 1887. The harbour is much exposed, but two breakwaters, of an aggregate length of 12,000 feet, have been built and are so projected as to practically enclose the whole of the anchorage, leaving an entrance 650 feet wide between these extremities. An extensive scheme for improving the harbour and providing better facilities for trade has been carried out and large steamers can now go alongside the Customs piers to load or discharge. The Yokohama Dock Company has now three dry docks of 515 ft., 481 ft., and 376 ft. docking length, 60 ft., 63 ft., and 50 ft., width of entrance, and 28 ft., 21.5 ft. and 26 ft. of water on the blocks respectively, and a mooring basin of 600 ft. by 100 ft. by 25 ft. Yokohama is well supplied with hotels. The Japan Gazette is now the only English daily newspaper published in Yokohama; others which were formerly published in the port are now printed in Tokyo.
The Japanese population of Yokohama has grown considerably in the last ten years and is now about 350,000. At the last census the number of foreign residents, exclusive of Chinese, was 2,447, of whom 1,089 were British; 527 Americans; 270 Germans, and 155 French. The Chinese population was returned at 3,800. The importance of the foreign element in the port may be gauged by the fact that they pay nearly 40% of the entire amount of business and income taxes collected in Yokohama, though they have no voice in the control of local affairs.
The foreign trade of the port in 1913 was 316,821,388 yen in exports, and 235,102,105 ven in imports. The detailed returns of the trade, as recorded by the Customs, not being available at the time this section went to press, we append the returns for 1912 for the purpose of showing the distribution of the trade.
In 1912 the values of the different classes of Imports were :-
Cotton, Yarns
Cotton Manufactures
Yen 53,506,262
... Yen 4,879,309
Iron and Steel
25,677,770
Beverages and Comestibles...
4,263,80
Grains and Seeds
20,623,791
Dyes and Paints
3,667,860
Drugs and Medicines
14,658,140
Copper. Lead, Zinc, &c........
3,024,243
Machinery
11,966,316
India Rubber...
3,177,678
Metal Manufactures
11,507,942
Scientific Instruments....
2,466,393
Oils, Fats and Waxes
6,984,914
Earthenware Manufactures
1,867,567
Vehicles, Clocks, Watches, &c.
6,194,845
Clothing and Accessories
745,581
Paper and Paper Manfctures.
6,047,818
Alcoholic Liquors
376,843
Woollen Tissues
6,046,406 Sundries
16,105,161
Sugar and Sweetmeats..
5,972,011
Ores and Minerals
5,585,722
Total Imports...Yen 215,346,448
Silk Manufactures
Yen 162,394,444
The values of the principal articles of Export in the same year were as follows:-
Silk (Raw and Waste).............. Yen 162,394,444
Drugs, Medicines, &c...
Yen 3,130,694
28,543,378
Marine Products
2,974,015
Cotton Manufactures
Metals and Metal Manuftrs.
13,298,532
Paper and Paper Manfctures.
2,161,495
11,102,300
Vegetables and 'Fruits
Clothing and Accessories
5,361,518
Sugar and Confectioneries... Machinery
2,159,794
1,351,825
Tea
...
3,568,840
Sundries
18,462,719
3,322,175
Total Exports...Yen 257,831,726
The above figures represent the total imports and exports of both foreign and
native goods.
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