MOJI AND SHIMONOSEKI
These two towns are situated on either side of Shimonoseki Straits, the western en- trance of the Inland Sea-Moji with a population of 105,437 on the south and Shimonoseki with a population of 101,568 on the north. Shimonoseki is under the jurisdiction of Yamaguchi (population 31,010), 51 miles away, and Moji under that of Fukuoka (popula- tion 192,397), 47 miles away. The foreign merchants formerly all had their offices in Shimonoseki, but owing to the very rapid growth of Moji during the last 25 years, due mainly to its becoming an important coal centre, most of the foreign and Japanese main and local branch offices have removed to Moji. The city has now fine roads, and commercial buildings. The head office of the Kyushu section of the Railway Bureau at Moji controls also part of the mainland and the eight hour Fusan ferry service. An imposing Government building has been completed to house the Customs, Harbour, Marine Bureaux at Moji, and wharves, capable of mooring steamers drawing 30 feet, are being made near by. Moji has important trade with the following neighbouring cities:- Kokura, population 80,019; Yawata (Government Steel Works) 137,431; Tobata 43,636; Wakamatsu, 61,989. Shimonoseki has a thriving fishery business; trawlers and their auxiliaries sending their catches thence by north-going trains. There is a fairly strong tidal current through the Straits, but the anchorage, which is at Moji, is only affected by an eddy, and good holding ground is general. Steamers entering from the West can get pilots at Rokuren Light, where boats have to stop in any case for medical inspection and harbour-master's instructions. From the eastward this inspection takes place at Hesaki Light. Means of transport are good. Liners run regularly to all foreign ordinary ports of call; and, while from Shimonoseki the Sanyo Rail- way taps the north, from Moji the Kiushiu Railway taps the south of Japan. The Shimonoseki Station Hotel provides good accommodation for foreigners. The Im- perial Railway Department has also four large ferry boats plying between Moji and the Shimonoseki Station, while a ten-minute ferry plies between the usual landing places at Moji and Shimonoseki. There is a project on foot to construct a tunnel under the Straits. Both towns have municipal waterworks, are lit by electricity, and are connected by telephone with the principal towns, from Kagoshima and Nagasaki, in the south, to Tokyo in the north-east. It should be specially noted that photographing and sketching are forbidden within a radius of ten miles round Shimonoseki and Moji on land and sea. The law in this respect is strictly enforced and ignorance is not accepted as an excuse.
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Moji Shimonoseki
1928
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304
Exports ...Y.43,716,910 2,635,234
Imports Y.80,887,105
786,514
MOJI DIRECTORY
ASAHI GLASS Co., LTD.-N.Y.K. Building
ASANO CEMENT Co., LTD.-300, Shirakizaki-
cho
BABCOCK & WILCOX, LTD., Patent Water Tube Boilers and Auxiliary Plant--3102, 2-chome, Uchihama-cho, Moji; Teleph. 689; Tel. Ad: Babcock
BAGNALL & HILLES, Merchants-Higashi
Hon-machi, 1-chome
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (JAPANESE)
Chairman-K. Yoshimura
CUSTOM HOUSE
DAI
Director-H. Kanamitsu Controller-O. Nakamura
Chief Examiner and Chief Appraiser
-S. Nakamoto
Examiner and Appraiser-C. Miyake Harbour Master-K. Akashi Chief Quarantine Officer-S. Hisano Chief Plant Inspector-T. Kawahara Chief, Accounts Office-O. Ebuchi Chief, Shimonoseki (East)-T. Uyeno
Do.
(West)-S. Inoue
NIPPON BREWERY Co., LTD.- Hagoromo-cho