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having been completed in 1887. An electric train service from Yokohama (Sakuragi- cho) to Tokyo (new station) runs every twelve minutes, covering the distance in 55 minutes. The harbour is 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. Excellent pier and wharf facilities exist, and, though practically entirely destroyed in the earthquake and fire of 1923, they are now all restored. There are 4 berths at the pier acconimodating the largest steamers, and 12 mooring wharves for large ocean-going vessels, most of these wharves accommodating vessels of any size. The Yokohama Dock Company has three dry docks of 631 ft., 489 ft., and 380 ft., docking length, 93 ft., 67 ft., and 60 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.

In the very severe earthquake, which was followed by a huge conflagration, 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 Japanese population of Yokohama was about 536,500 in 1928, according to the Census returns of that year. There was a great exodus as the result of the earthquake, but confidence is now restored and there seems every reason to expect that in time Yokohama will recover its former prominence as the principal port of Japan.

The foreign trade suffered inevitable dislocation after the earthquake, but the export trade has already largely recovered and is showing a steady increase. Imports received a great stimulation owing to the need for reconstruction material, but the normal import business shows a slower recovery than the export trade.

The heavy cost of rebuilding hampered the return of business houses, but many of these resuined business in premises temporarily erected pending permanent rebuild- ing. Permanent re-building is in progress, and the streets are widended and improved. In the principal business sections all new permanent building must be fireproof.

DIRECTORY

ABE & CO., LTD., Importers of Building

Hardware, Sugar and Fertiliser Hon-cho, 2-chome

30,

ABE SHOTEN, LTD., Importers and Dealers in Building Hardware-46, Hon-cho, 3- chome

ABEKO & Co., LTD., Exporters and Im- porters of Sugar, Flour and General Merchandise-4, Tachibana-cho, 2-chome

ADET, CAMPREDON & Co., Wine and Spirit Importers, and Insurance Agents-43, Yamashita-cho; P.O. Box 51; Tel. Ad: Mossy camp

C. H. Moss

M. Campredon (Bordeaux) B. W. Cahusac J. Masson

K, Otake

F. Ravetta

Agents for

Comite des Assureurs Maritimes de

Bordeaux

Guardian Assurance Co., Ld.

London and Provincial Marine and

General Insurance Co., Ld. John Harvey & Sons, Ld., Bristol

ADIS & Co., GEORGE-P.O. Box 103; Tel.

Ad: Utica

AHRENS & Co., NACHF, H. (Gomei Kaisha) -44, Yamashita-cho; P.O. Box 71; Tel. Ad: Nordlloyd

H. Umbhau Representatives for

Stickstoff Syndikat, G.m.b.H., Berlin.

Synthetic Fertiliser

Agents for

Norddeutscher Lloyd

AIR LIQUIDE, YOKOHAMA FACTORY-3063,

Koyasu-cho

AKIMOTO NOBUYOSHI SHOTEN, Dealers in Ship's Fittings and Machinery 15, Masago-cho, 1-chome

AMERICAN MAIL LINE-50, Yamashita-che; Telephs. 2-2262 and 2-4656; Tel. Ad; Mailine; Codes: Bentley's, Universal F. C. Thompson, general agent

W. B. Smith

S. J. Albright | L. Nietman

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