YOKOHAMA
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In the very severe earthquake, which was followed by a huge conflagra- tion, on September 1st, 1923, close on 30,000 people are known to have perished. Another 3,559 were missing and believed to be dead, and 66,371 were officially reported as injured, the total casualties representating nearly one-quarter of the population. The number of buildings destroyed was 70,000 out of a total of 93,000. The shipping in harbour was placed in serious jeopardy by the blazing oil from the oil-tanks on shore running into and spreading over the water.
The population of Yokohama was about 750,000 in 1937 thus being the sixth largest city in the Empire.
Yokohama chiefly subsists on its foreign trade, especially the valuable silk trade, which from the time of the opening of the country has always been handled at the port. The earthquake of 1923 for a time disabled the port, and the silk trade was temperorarily transferred to Kobe, but with the rehabilitation of the northern port the trade has been in part recaptured.
The present depression in the silk trade, however, due partly to the economic situation in the U.S.A. and partly to the competition of rayon, has had some effect upon the port; fortunately it was offset to a great extent by the increase in other exports since the abandonment of the Gold Standard by Japan, and the growth of industrial areas in the neighbourhood.
Yokohama is administered by the Municipality, which owns the electric lighting and power plants, the electric tramways and the gas and water supplies.
MA
DIRECTORY OF FOREIGN FIRMS
AALL & Co., LTD.-7, Yamashita-cho,
Naka-ku; Cable Ad: Aall
ADET, MOSS & Co., Wholesale Wine
and Spirit Merchants-43, Yamashi- ta-cho; Teleph. 2-4077; P.O. Box 51; Cable Ad: Mossycamp
C. H. Moss
AHRENS & Co., NACHF, H. (Gomei Kaisha)-51, Yamashita-cho; Naka- ku; Teleph. (2) 0142 and (2) 0150 (Honkyoku); P.O. Box 71; Cable Ad: Nordlloyd
H. Bosch. acting partner (Tokyo) H. Umbhau
Agencies:
Stickstoff
Syndikat,
Berlin. Fertilizers
G.m.b. H.,
Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen.
Passenger and Freight Line
ASSOCIATION OF YOKOHAMA
AMERICAN
-(See Clubs)
AMERICAN CONSULATE (See Consulates)
AMERICAN CYNAMID CO.-133, Sailobun-
machi, Kanagawa-ku
AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., INC., THE-7,
Nihon Odori, Nakaku; Teleph. (2) 4722; P.O. Box 407; Cable Ad: Amexco
AMERICAN MAIL LINE LTD.--50, Yama- shita-cho; Telephs. 2-4237-9; Cable Ad: Mailine; Codes: Bentley's Universal, etc.
C. W. Gabrielson, general agent
F. H. Spengler L. Nietman
AMERICAN MERCHANDISE
Co., INC.,
Cable
Cable Ad:
Exporters of General Merchandise -164, Yamashita-cho;
Harlo. Head Office: New York; Branches: Los Angeles, Montreal, Yokohama, Nagoya, Kobe and Shanghai
AMERICAN TRADING CO. OF JAPAN, LTD.
-255, Yamashita-cho; Shipping De- partment Teleph. 2-0580; P. O. Box 28 Cable Ad: Amtraco. Head Office for Japan Tokyo