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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, 80 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 397,574. According to investigations conducted by the Census Registration Department of the Yokohama Municipal Office, the total number of foreign residents in the city at the end of 1914 is put at 6,851, which, compared with the census taken at the end of the preceding year, shows a decrease of 1,702. This is attributed largely to the war, many having left to serve their country at the front. 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 1916 was 497,653,158 yen in exports, and 209,737,683 yen in imports.
In 1916 the values of the different classes of Imports were :—
Cotton, Yarns
Sugar and Sweetmeats..... Ores and Minerals
Grains and Seeds
Yen 56,143,349
.Yen 4,252,565
Iron and Steel
38,995,959
4,046,028
Drugs and Medicines
24,243,074
3,953,043
Bean-cake, Manure
12,507,833
Woollen Tissues...
2,894,263
Copper, Lead, Zinc, &c.......
8,853,512
Dyes and Paints.
2,243,471
Vehicles, Clocks, Watches, &c.
7,284,778
Cotton Manufactures
1,745,293
Paper and Paper Manfctures.
7,130,428
Beverages and Comestibles...
1,594,184
Machinery
6,116,187
Copra..
1,279,834
Oils, Fats and Waxes
5,468,555
Metal Manufactures
4,992,396
Potteries and Glass M'ftrs... Sundries
1,107,653
10,439,455
Skin, Hairs, Bones, etc.......................
4,463,823
Total Imports...Yen 209,737,683
The values of the principal articles of Export in the same year were as follows:-
Silk (Raw and Waste)...... Yen 271,813,540
Silk Manufactures
47,340,987
Cotton, Tissues....................... Toys..
Yen 5,005,917
4,045,984
Metals and Metal Manuftrs.
39,061,457
Sugar and Confectioneries
3,991,536
Grains, Flours, Seeds.......
12,500,693
Clothing and Accessories..
11,200,399
Cotton Manufactures
10,174, 10
Paper and Paper Maufctures. Oils, Fats, Wax, etc.
Tea
3,977,805
3,549,873
2,676,959
Drugs, Medicines, &c.......
8,696,310
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Marine Products
2,631,213
Braids of Hemp....
8,599,183
Potteries and Glass M'fters.
1,870,598
Beverages, and Comestibles.
7,726,392
Clocks, Scientific Insts, &c.
5,486,496
Skins, Hairs, Horns, &c.... Sundries
1,070,467
40,812,021
Cotton, Yarns....
5,421,313
Total Exports...Yen 497,653,158
The above figures represent the total imports and exports of both foreign and native goods.
DIRECTORY
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ADET, CAMPREDON & Co., Merchants-- (established 1887)-95, Yamashitacho; Teleph. 4077; Tel. Ad: Mossy camp
C. H. Moss, partner
H. Campredon, do. (Bordeaux) Agents-Comité des Assureurs Mari-
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