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YOKOHAMA-HAKODATE

YOKOHAMA AND TOKYO FOREIGN BOARD OF TRADE-75, Yamashita-cho, Board of Trade Building; Teleph. 1358 (Hon- kyoku); P.O. Box 10

Eugéne Fox, secretary

YOKOHAMA NURSERY CO., LTD., Exporters of Lily Bulbs, Plants, Seeds, etc.-21, Nakamura, Bluff; Teleph. 509; Tel. Ad: Üyekigumi

H. Suzuki, president R. Yamaguchi, director S. Tokuda,

G. Tanabe,

S. Iida, manager

do.

do.

YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LTD.

Kenji Kodama, president

Reitaro Ichinomiya, vice-president

Naozo Igarashi, manager

H. I. Kudo, sub-manager

O. Kohno,

do.

H. Koyasu, per pro. manager S. Fujiki

R. Okawara

YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.-34, San- chome Hirami-machi; Telephs. 2858, and 3816 (Chojamachi); Tel. Ad: Yokoruco

Baron K. Nakashima, chairman Y. Kawai, president

G. Goto, mang.-director

S. Nakagawa,

do.

H. E. Raymond, do.

T. Komuro, mang.-director

W. C. Arthur, do.

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YORKSHIRE INSURANCE Co., LTD.-70B; Teleph. 2493; P.O. Box 303; Tel. Ad: Yorkshire

F. D. Charles

YOSHIKAWA, K., Bookseller and Stationer

-5, Bentendori; Teleph. 2688

S. Yoshikawa

T. Koyama

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION -Tokiwa-cho, Itchome; Teleph. 4360 (Honkyoku)

T. Nakamori, president

Masura Omura, gen. secretary

H. S. Sneyd, hon. gen. secretary

ZELLWEGER & Co., LTD., E., Raw Silk Merchants and General Importers—90B; Teleph. 517

A. Brunner (Basle)

S. Stachelin, do.

P. H. Christen, signs per pro. W. Reist

ZEMMA WORKS, LTD., Manufacturers of Machine Tools and Woodworking Machinery, Steam Engines, Steam and Hot Water Boilers-Isogo-Mura, near Yokohama; Teleph. 3400 (Choya-machi); Tel. Ad: Zemma

H. E. Metcalf, managing director F. G. Britton, manager

T. W. Chisholm | 500 Japanese

HAKODATE

This, the most northerly of the old treaty ports of Japan, is situated in the south of Yezo, in the Straits of Tsugaru, which divide that island from Honshiu. The port lief in latitude 41 deg. 47 min. 8 sec. N., and longitude 140 deg. 45 min. 34 sec. E., and the harbour is nearly land-locked. The town clusters at the foot and on the slope of a bold rock known to foreigners as Hakodate Head, about 1,000 feet in height, which is within a fortified area to which the public are not admitted. The surrounding country is hilly, volcanic, and striking, but the town itself possesses few attractions. There are some Public Gardens at the eastern end of the town which contain a small but interest- ing Museum. Waterworks for supplying the town with pure water were completed in 1889. The climate of Hakodate is healthy and bracing. The hottest month is August, but the thermometer there rarely rises above 90 degrees Fahr.; in the winter it some- times sinks to 10 degrees Fahr, or even less, the minimum in an average winter being about 12 degrees Fahr. The mean temperature throughout the year is about 48 degrees. The population of Hakodate has been increasing rapidly for many years and is now about 140,000.

The foreign trade of the port is small, but has been steadily growing during the last few years, mainly owing to the development of the Kamtschatka salmon fisheries, for which Hakodate is the principal entrepôt. The value of the imports in 1921 was Yen 20,922,458 and the exports Yen 24,958,514. (These figures include the fishing trade with Asiatic Russia.) The agricultural resources of Yezo have been to some extent

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