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	Yokohama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yokohama was designated as a foreign port instead of Kanagawa, which the Tokugawa shogunate feared was too close to the Tokaido, a strategic highway connecting Edo to Nagoya, Kyoto, and Osaka.
		Yokohama is located on a peninsula facing the western side of Tokyo Bay, 30 kilometers (18 miles) from Tokyo, to which it is connected by a half-dozen railway lines as well as expressways and surface streets.
		Yokohama is the home of the Yokohama BayStars (Formerly Taiyo Whales), a Central League baseball team, and the Yokohama F Marinos, a J.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yokohama,_Kanagawa (814 words)

	Yokohama, Kanagawa article - Yokohama, Kanagawa Yokohama, Aomori Japanese Kanagawa prefecture Japan port 2003 - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Yokohama (Japanese: 横浜市; -shi) is the capital city of Kanagawa prefecture in Japan, and also a major port.
		The city was founded on April 1, 1889 and was designated on September 1, 1956 by government ordinance.
		Yokohama had been a small fishing village before the sea port was opened in 1859.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Yokohama (306 words)

	Encyclopedia: Yokohama, Kanagawa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		(å¤§é˜ªå¸‚; ÅŒsaka-shi) is the third-largest city in Japan, with a population of 2.
		Isogo (Japanese: 磯子区; -ku) is one of 18 wards of Yokohama, a city in Kanagawa, Japan.
		Naka-ku (ä¸åŒº) is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Yokohama,-Kanagawa (4185 words)

	World Cup 2002 Venues: Yokohama
		Yokohama is Japan's second largest city, and considering its close proximity to Tokyo, it is hard to tell where once of these two sprawling metropolises ends and the other begins.
		Yokohama is about 30 minutes by train from Tokyo, and the stadium is just a short train ride to the north of Yokohama City, easily acessible from a number of key train lines and expressways.
		Yokohama likes to consider itself a "hotbed" of football, though it probably will have to take a back seat to some of the local towns in nearby Shizuoka prefecture and Ibaraki, to the west, where football is the only game in town.
	www.wldcup.com /Asia/stadia/yokohama.html (363 words)

	Yokohama on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The capital has since expanded the facilities and operations of its own port, but Yokohama is still important in the export of machinery, iron, and steel and in the import of raw materials for the region.
		Virtually destroyed by an earthquake and fires in 1923, Yokohama was quickly rebuilt; the city was modernized, and extensive improvements were made in its harbor.
		The city has four universities; a variety of Christian churches, Shinto shrines, and temples; and numerous parks and gardens, notably Nogeyama Park, which was created after the earthquake.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/Y/Yokohama.asp (628 words)

	Yokohama - Simple English Wikipedia
		Yokohama is a neighbor city of Tokyo and has been the second largest city of Japan since 1980s.
		The Yokohama port was created in the middle of the 19th century for foreighers.
		Yokohama was an entrance for foreign cultures for a long time.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yokohama (263 words)

	WPA ONLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Yokohama is a bustling city with a population of more than 3 million people, making it Japan's second largest city after the adjacent metropolitan Tokyo.
		Yokohama's modern history dates from 1859, when the port was opened to the international community.
		Yokohama is continually working toward a better future and has set its sights firmly on the twenty-first century by pushing ahead with urban development.
	www.wpanet.org /sectorial/yokohama.html (232 words)

	January 15 - dominik.net
		We drove through Yokohama's Chinatown -- the concept of a foreign culture having its own zone in a Japanese city is fairly rare, as Japan was isolated as an island nation for 300 years of its history.
		Yokohama's Chinatown did not contrast as much with the culture of the city as say, Chinatown in Boston contrasts with the colonial architecture.
		That sector of Yokohama was known as MM21, which was an abbreviation for the Japanese words for "Future City 21," a reference to the current city.
	www.dominik.net /japan/jan15.php3 (2453 words)

	J League Teams: Yokohama Marinos
		The Yokohama Marinos rank as one of the traditional powerhouses of Japanese football, and have a long tradition of winning championships that dates back to their formation in the 1960s as the club team of Nissan Motor.
		Yokohama had to fight off strong challenges from a host of contenders, but somehow managed to win both stages of the 2003 league competition and emerge as uncontested champions.
		Of course, Yokohama needed tremendous discipline and more than a little luck to repeat as champions in 2004, and the loss of some of the veterans this year will make the job even tougher in 2005.
	www.wldcup.com /Asia/jleague/marinos.html (1050 words)

	Yokohama Subway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Yokohama subway network in Yokohama, Japan is operated by two groups.
		Yokohama City Subway (横浜市営地下鉄), operated by the Yokohama City Board of Public Transportation, runs the following lines:
		The Yokohama High Speed Rail Company (横浜高速鉄道株式会社) is a semi-private consortium of Yokohama city, Kanagawa prefecture and the Tokyo Kyuko Electric Railway.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yokohama_Subway (163 words)

	Yokohama - Wikitravel
		Yokohama was the first port opened up to foreign trade after the opening of Japan in 1854.
		However, Yokohama was devastated by the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 and again by the firebombings of World War II, and never really regained its prominence.
		Yokohama is located only half an hour away from Tokyo, and effectively forms a part of the giant conurbation.
	wikitravel.org /en/Yokohama (1161 words)

	UrbanRail.Net > Asia > Japan > YOKOHAMA Subway
		Yokohama has 3.4 million inhabitants (second largest city in Japan) and is situated on the south-western shore of the Tokyo Bay, only 30 km from Central Tokyo.
		In spite of the high population, Yokohama has only one real subway line which is complemented by several local railways which offer a dense rail network also within the city (especially the Sotetsu and the Keikyu Lines).
		4 Sept. 1976 - to Kaminagaya (2.8km) and to Yokohama (3.5km)
	www.urbanrail.net /as/yoko/yokohama.htm (459 words)

	WCFan.com: Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Once a small fishing village, Yokohama has blossomed into Japan's second largest city with a population of some 3.4 million over the past 140 years from 1859 when it was opened to the Western world as one of Japan's first international ports.
		Due to the influence of the many foreigners who settled in Yokohama, the city provides a wide variety of cuisines, such as French, Italian, German and Swedish, to name a few.
		Yokohama offers more than 9,000 rooms, ranging from superdeluxe hotels with the highest standards of comfort and service, to inexpensive tourist-class accommodations.
	www.wcfan.com /site/p8.html (974 words)

	Worldisround - My Beloved Yokohama City - Harbors, Wharfs & Waterfronts in Kanagawa pictures
		Yokohama, city and port in Japan, capital of Kanagawa Prefecture, on southern Honshū Island and the western shore of Tokyo Bay, near the city of Tokyo.
		Among the city's educational institutions are Yokohama National University (1949) and Yokohama City University (1949).
		Yokohama was a small fishing village with a population of about 350 when it was visited by United States Commodore Matthew Perry in 1854.
	www.worldisround.com /articles/115939/text.html (249 words)

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		Yokohama was already suffering from air pollution in its coastal industrial area, and it was expected that this power plant would aggravate the air pollution in the city.
		The fact that Yokohama city had the possibility to block the building of the power plant can have contributed to the environmental effectiveness in that case. The economic efficiency of PCAs in Yokohama may be low In Yokohama City, the PCAs were concluded with single companies.
		On the contrary, the tendency for agreements in Yokohama City to only cover expansions and new plants may cause some low-cost abatement options not to be pursued.
	www.oecd.org /dataoecd/54/17/2488148.doc (862 words)

	Sister City Program
		The City of Yokohama to cover all costs except for a budget of $5,000 to be allocated from contingency reserve to cover gifts and miscellaneous expenses.
		PURPOSE The purpose of this report is to request Council's approval to accept the invitations to visit the City of Yokohama for October 1, 1995, and to visit the City of Guangzhou in mid-November.
		The City of Yokohama has subsequently extended an invitation (see Appendix A) for three representatives from the City of Vancouver to attend the 30th anniversary celebration events to take place in Yokohama on October 1, 1995, with all costs, including air transportation, hotels and meals for 5 days paid for by Yokohama.
	www.city.vancouver.bc.ca /CTYCLERK/cclerk/950912/a15.htm (968 words)

	Yokohama Delegation to Vancouver
		DELEGATION FROM YOKOHAMA 1995 is the 30th anniversary of the twinning of Vancouver and Yokohama.
		City staff have been working closely with an ad hoc committee from the business and cultural communities to plan for a suitable, yet economical program to honour this anniversary and the interest expressed by the City of Yokohama.
		However, since a Yokohama delegation led by Mayor Takahide will visit Vancouver from June 28 to July 5, it is proposed that Council allocate $5,000 from the Sister City Grant budget to the City Clerk for hosting the Yokohama delegation.
	www.city.vancouver.bc.ca /ctyclerk/cclerk/950620/a3.htm (684 words)

	Our Sister Cities: Yokohama, Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Yokohama was San Diego's first Sister City and one of the first Sister Cities on the West Coast.
		Yokohama is a port city about 30 minutes by train South of Tokyo.
		Yokohama presented San Diego with a snow-viewing lantern, a friendship bell, cherry trees, and has been very generous in helping to establish a Japanese garden in Balboa Park.
	www.sandiegosistercities.org /sister/yokohama (100 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » City of Yokohama becomes first city in Japan to provide ongoing medical aid ...
		Following the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake of 1995, the City of Yokohama was the first city to distribute its stock of medical drugs and other products in preparation for disasters to 145 regional medical emergency bases throughout Yokohama City (designated elementary and junior high schools), city hospitals and other facilities.
		World-famous Yokohama lies on a peninsula in Tokyo Bay, approximately 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the capital of Japan.
		It is a sister city of Constantza, Lyon, Manila, Mumbai, Odessa, San Diego, Shanghai and Vancouver, and a sister port of Dalian, Hamburg, Melbourne, Oakland, Shanghai and Vancouver.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6HX8AD?OpenDocument (621 words)

	Military Travel Center - TS_012904
		In 1981, a project that would transform the city of Yokohama’s unsightly shipping skyline into a hub for the 21st century was launched.
		Yokohama has been one of Japan’s most important ports since its opening 150 years ago when the U.S. and Japan signed a peace and amity treaty at Kanagawa on March 31, 1854.
		Yokohama now is Japan’s second largest city with a population of 3.53 million, and ranks as the country’s third largest port in terms of trade.
	www.militarykids.com /Travel/Content1/0,,TS_012904,00.html (522 words)

	First of Yokohama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Yokohama is the city where modern Japan was born.
		But once the Port of Yokohama was opened on July 1, 1859, it took no time for this once idle fishing village to morph into a city as so many things foreign flooded in.
		Hence, Yokohama became the "City of Many Firsts" in the rapidly modernizing Japan of the 19th and 20th centuries.
	www.welcome.city.yokohama.jp /eng/convention/news/031104.html (415 words)

	Yokohama -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		city and port, capital of Kanagawa ken (prefecture), Japan, and part of the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area, which is the largest urban agglomeration in Japan.
		At its centre is the metropolitan prefecture, or metropolis (to), of Tokyo, Japan's capital and largest city.
		Situated on the southern slopes of the Tama Hills, the city was formed by the amalgamation of Hara-Machida and three neighbouring villages in 1958.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9077991 (665 words)

	Activities of Hydrogen Energy Research in Yokohama National University (PATH Newsletter, January 2004)
		Yokohama National University was founded in 1948 by the merging of the engineering, economics and education colleges.
		The members of our university strongly supported the activities of HESS from the beginning and also the 15th World Hydrogen Energy Conference that will be held in Yokohama in the end of June, 2004.
		Yokohama National University is actively working for the establishment of hydrogen energy system — a clean energy system for the sustainable growth of human beings.
	www.hpath.org /Newsletter/path-newsletter-04-01-05.asp (416 words)

	Hotels Yokohama Japan: The Pan Pacific Hotel Yokohama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A city port, Yokohama is a cosmopolitan city with an abundance of attractions well worth visiting and within easy access of the Pan Pacific Yokohama.
		Pan Pacific Yokohama is conveniently located in the Minato Mirai District 21 of Yokohama, which is packed with first-rate shopping malls and dining facilities.
		Pan Pacific Yokohama is located in the trendy, new Minato Mirai 21 waterfront area of Yokohama, the international port city located 30 kilometres south of Tokyo.
	yokohama.panpacific.com /hotel/location.html (298 words)

	WWP Japan 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Characterized by openness and a progressive spirit, the port city of Yokohama has always been eager to adopt new cultures from around the world and fuse them into a new tradition.
		Ending Japan's period of isolationism, Yokohama was opened to the world in 1859, and since then it has evolved into an industrialized city of firsts for the land of the rising sun.
		Numerous train lines stop in Yokohama, and the city is easily accessible to expressways.
	www.worldworkplace.org /japan/gen_info_about_yoko.htm (470 words)

	World Cup 2002 at eleven-a-side.com, the home of Irish soccer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Located 6 km from the centre of Yokohama city - 12 min walk from shin Yokohama Station on the JR Shinkansen/ yokohama Line and the Metropolitan Subway - 7 min walk from Kozukue Station on the JR Yokohama Line - 15 min walk from Shin-yokohama Kita Station on the Metropolitan subway.
		Yokahama is Japan's second largest city after Tokyo and is situated only 30 mins away from the capital by car.
		The city is probably the most western-influenced city in the country with most of its industry based in technology.
	www.eleven-a-side.com /worldcup/venues.asp?id=3 (236 words)

	THE YOKOHAMA DIGITAL FOREFRONT - Your Port of Entry to Japan's IT Market - JETRO USA - Japan External Trade Organization
		Yokohama is famous for international trading which began in 1859.
		Yokohama is the safest city among the major cities in Japan.
		He is proud of the open-minded Yokohama citizens who elected him at the age of 37 in spite of being a big city.
	www.jetro.org /index.php?option=com_events_jetro&Itemid=&day_filter=2005-06-30&content=detail&event_id=88&Itemid=200 (852 words)

	YOKOHAMA
		The Yokohama International Port Terminal is a location of complex movement and interchange between visitors to Yokohama and its inhabitants, between differing modes of transportation, and between both urban and aquatic landscapes.
		The traditional function of such an urban gateway is to mark a threshold between the inhabitants of the city and the visitors traveling by sea.
		Similarly, port terminals historically symbolize a doorway to the city with a planar face that is neither part of the urban fabric nor part of the aquatic landscape beyond.
	www.basilisk.com /Y/YOKOHAMA_607.html (561 words)

	Yokohama Sightseeing Spots Top Menu
		This is the area that is full of Yokohama's unique exotic charms.
		City hotels and facilities for entertainment and shopping are centered here, making it Yokohama's second city.
		You can get a very good feel of Yokohama's history and culture not only through the "Opening of Civilization" or "Harbor Town" but through many attractive aspects of this area.
	www.welcome.city.yokohama.jp /eng/tourism/spot (323 words)

	YOKOHAMA STUDENTS TO BRING CITY’S GOODWILL TO UN CHILDREN’S FUND ON MONDAY, 10 OCTOBER
		Students from Japan designated as “Yokohama Children Peace Messengers” will deliver approximately $128,448 (¥14,129,319), donated by residents of the city of Yokohama, to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Monday, 10 October.
		In addition to Yokohama’s deep history of involvement in a range of international exchange activities, the city’s activities throughout the International Year of Peace (1986) won them official recognition by the United Nations as a “ Peace Messenger City” in 1987.
		Each year, as one part of the city’s peace-related activities, students are chosen through an original peace-related speech contest and designated as “Yokohama Children Peace Messengers”. The students travel to New York City, representing the international peace efforts that Yokohama has made throughout the year.
	www.un.org /news/Press/docs/2005/note5969.doc.htm (202 words)

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