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YOKOHAMA

completed in 1887. An electric train service from Yokohama (Sakuragi-eho) to Tokyo (new station) runs every ten minutes, covering the distance in 55 minutes. The harbour is much exposed, but two breakwaters, of an aggregate length of 12,000 feet, have been built and are so projected as practically to 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 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 the only English daily newspaper published in

Yokohama.

The Japanese population of Yokohama had grown considerably in the last ten years and was about 422,942 in 1920, according to the Census returns of that year. The importance of the foreign element in the port may be gauged by the fact that they paid nearly 40% of the entire amount of business and income taxes collected in Yokohama.

The town was devastated by a very severe earthquake, followed by a huge con- flagration, 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 representing 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 foreign trade of the port in 1922 was:-Imports, Yen 652,154,109, and Exports, Yen 895,463,242, as compared with Imports, Yen 520,400,765, and Exports, Yen 602,993,259, in 1921.

DIRECTORY

(For Government Departments see under G.)

ADMIRAL ORIENTAL LINE-42, Yamashita- cho; Teleph. 237; Tel. Ad: Admiraline

F. C. Thompson, agent

L. Nietman

AHRENS & Co., NACHF, H. (Gomei Kaisha) -Temporary Office: Helm Bros., 43, Yamashita-cho

H. Umbhau (Nord Lloyd agency)

AKIYAMA LAW OFFICE, THE, Attorneys-at- Law and Patent Attorneys-Address: Room 19 (4th floor), Mitsubushi Build- ing, Tokyo

S. Ikeda, LL.B.

H. Yasuda, LL.B. | R. Ozawa

AMERICAN EXPRESS Co.-See Kobe

AMERICAN TRADING Co.-P.O. Box 28.

Head Office for Japan: Tokyo

ANGLO-SAXON PETROLEUM CO., LTD. P.O. Box 331; Tel. Ad: Petrosam

APCAR & Co., A. M. (Gomei Kaisha), General Merchants and Commission Agents-Teleph. 2449; P.O. Box 70; Tel. Ad: Apcar

M. Ápcar

K. Mayeda I S. Takano

ASIA BANKING CORPORATION-50A, Yama-

shita-cho; P.O. Box 221; Tel. Ad: Bankasia

c/o Siber

AUTO-EXCHANGE GARAGE c/o

Hegner & Co., 90, Yamashita-cho

BARMONT & Co., Raw Silk-9, Bund,

Yamashita-cho; Tel. Ad: Barmont

Madier Freres & Co., agents

BAVIER & Co., Merchants-P.O. Box 74

BELL, HAROLD, TAYLOR, BIRD & Co., Char-

tered Accountants-See under Kobe

BERRICK & Co., LTD.-Tel, Ad: Berrick