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	Yokosuka, Kanagawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Yokosuka Iron Foundry was established on the site of the city in 1865, and the French engineer Léonce Verny spent the next ten years supervising the development of shipbuilding facilities.
		Yokosuka was to become one of the main arsenals of the Imperial Japanese Navy into the 20th century, in which were built battleships such as Yamashiro, and aircraft carriers such as Hiryu and Shokaku.
		Yokosuka now is home to one of the biggest military seaports shared by the United States Navy and the Maritime Self-Defense Force of Japan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yokosuka (522 words)

	Kanagawa Prefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yokosuka Port commanding the mouth of Tokyo Bay is headquartered by the U.S. 7th Fleet.
		Yokosuka City commanding a strategic location at the mouth of Tokyo Bay developed as a naval port during the age of militarism.
		Kanagawa is a relatively small prefecture wedged between Tokyo on the north, the foothills of Mount Fuji on the northwest, and the Pacific Ocean and Tokyo Bay on the south and east.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kanagawa_Prefecture (437 words)

	Yokosuka Japan
		COMFLEACT Yokosuka comprises 568 acres and is located at the entrance of Tokyo Bay, 43 miles south of Tokyo and approximately 18 miles south of Yokohama on the Miura peninsula in the Kanto Plain region of the Pacific Coast in Central Honshu, Japan.
		Yokosuka is ideally located to give assigned personnel the opportunity to study Japan's past or catch a glimpse of her future.
		As of October 1, 1996, the population of Yokosuka City is estimated to be 431,334.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/yokosuka.htm (2433 words)

	Japan port cities wary of U.S. nuclear warships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The city is trying to draw up a crisis-response plan for naval nuclear accidents, city official Nagatoshi Esashi said Monday.
		"As mayors of the cities where nuclear powered submarines visit, we have to say the current plans are insufficient," the mayors wrote in their formal request.
		The last two nuclear-powered carrier visits to Yokosuka were the USS Nimitz, in September 1997, and the USS Carl Vinson, in June 1996.
	www.fas.org /news/japan/991130-yokosuka.htm (633 words)

	2004 Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		YOKOSUKA, Japan ¾ The U.S. Navy participated in the City of Yokosuka's emergency response drill today to exercise communication links established with the City.
		The first part of the drill exercised the City's procedures in the event of a radiation monitoring post alarm and provided confirmation that communication links between the City and the U.S. Navy worked correctly.
		The second part of the drill exercised the City's radiological accident response procedures, which was a separate training event not related to the U.S. Navy's participation.
	www.cnfj.navy.mil /PAO/Release04-22.htm (247 words)

	Kyodo World News Service: U.S. military, Yokosuka city hold talks on disaster prevention@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		YOKOSUKA, Japan, Jan. 13 (Kyodo) -- The municipal government of Yokosuka and the U.S. Navy headquarters in Japan held a forum Thursday on disaster prevention so as to cooperate in future plans on the issue, city officials said.
		The conference, the first of its kind between the Japanese city administration and the U.S. military in Japan, was held after the city asked the U.S. Navy headquarters to participate.
		The Yokosuka municipal government aims to ask the U.S. military for its cooperation in...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:24510650&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (226 words)

	Yokosuka - Wikitravel
		Yokosuka (横須賀) is a major city in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan.
		Yokosuka claims to be the place of origin of the quintessentially Japanese dish curry rice, and it seems everywhere you turn there's a sign for "Navy curry" (海軍カレー).
		It's not idle boasting, though, as the dish is believed to have been introduced in the late 19th century by British sailors who regularly ate the easily-preserved meal.
	wikitravel.org /en/Yokosuka (517 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Sister City's goal is to involve both the public and private sector in furthering cultural development and global understanding among countries.
		The City of Yokosuka has developed a training program in which qualified employees are sent to Corpus Christi to work with their counterparts in our municipal government.
		The City of Agen is also a Sister City of Toledo, Spain, making a triangle of Sister Cities between the three countries.
	www.ccredc.com /BusEnv_sister.asp (676 words)

	Thursday, May 17, 2001
		YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — Labor and environmental groups want the city of Yokosuka to stand against future basing of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier at this installation, even though the U.S. Navy says such a move isn’t planned at present.
		Neither the government of Japan nor the city of Yokosuka has taken an official stand on nuclear carriers, though the Japanese public and press have been skittish over the years about nuclear-powered carriers and submarines visiting the country’s ports.
		Shoji Shimizu, the leader of Yokosuka’s NEPA Coalition chapter, said the groups began gathering the signatures from across the country in November 1998.
	www.stripes.com /01/may01/ed051701b.html (793 words)

	iCommunity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Yokosuka City, Japan, with a population of 430,000, lies 50 km south of Tokyo, and is surrounded by abundant green hills facing the sea.
		Yokosuka City’s foundation began with the establishment of the Yokosuka Arsenal in 1865.
		Yokosuka is also the first municipal government in Japan to reform its bidding system through an Internet-based electronic system.
	www.worldteleport.org /iCommunity/Spring04/focus10.html (466 words)

	Navy Times - News - More News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		TOKYO — The local assembly in a Japanese city that hosts a U.S. naval base voted unanimously Wednesday against plans to deploy a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier there, citing the feelings of people in a country where the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs.
		The 45-member Yokosuka City Assembly unanimously adopted a statement urging the central government to nullify the agreement with Washington to base a Nimitz-class nuclear aircraft carrier in the city starting in 2008, replacing an older conventional carrier, city spokesman Takahide Kurabayashi said.
		Yokosuka hosts the 7th Fleet, the only U.S. fleet based overseas.
	www.navytimes.com /story.php?f=1-292925-1217639.php (357 words)

	Yokosuka Hotels
		__NOTOC__ The Yokosuka D4Y ''Suisei'' (彗星, "comet") was a dive bomber of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
		It was developed starting in 1938 at the Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal, based on two Heinkel He 118 dive bombers that had been supplied by Germany.
		Service trials demonstrated weakness in the wing structure, a fatal flaw for an airframe subject to the stresses of the dive bombing maneuver, and the initial models were used as reconnaissance planes starting in late 1942.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/237/yokosuka-hotels.html (1097 words)

	Nippon
		Yokosuka was on southcentral Honshu island approximately forty miles south of Tokyo and on the southwestern side of Tokyo Bay, almost at its mouth.
		Yokohama was a short distance north of Yokosuka and was an industrial city known for being the most modern in Japan.
		Yokosuka was home to an important Japanese naval base, which we have occupied since the end of the war.
	www.netmeister.net /~cpaige/21NIPPON.htm (3651 words)

	Japan Votes Against Nuclear Powered Carrier
		TOKYO - The local assembly in a Japanese city that hosts a U.S. naval base voted unanimously Wednesday against plans to deploy a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier there, citing the feelings of people in a country where the US dropped two atomic bombs.
		Yokosuka hosts the U.S. Seventh Fleet, the only U.S. fleet based overseas.
		The decision to deploy the nuclear-powered carrier comes 60 years after the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the closing days of the war.
	www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,79772,00.html?ESRC=topstories.RSS (379 words)

	2003 Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Yokosuka, Japan -- The U.S. Navy participated in the City of Yokosuka’s emergency response drill today to exercise communication links established with the City.
		The Navy confirmed that a simulated submarine was not the cause of a radiation monitoring alarm received at the Yokosuka naval base as part of the drill.
		CFAY immediately verified that conditions were normal aboard a submarine simulated to be in port at CFAY and passed this information back to the City.
	www.cnfj.navy.mil /PAO/Release03-24.htm (299 words)

	Stars & Stripes
		YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Yokosuka, Japan — Yokosuka city is planning its third disaster-preparedness drill next week, continuing to prepare for nuclear-powered warships accidents related to the base, according to local newspapers.
		In the first drill by the city in 2002, the scenario included a radiation leak from a U.S. nuclear submarine.
		The drills by Yokosuka were the result of heightened fears of nuclear accidents after a 1999 accident at Tokaimura nuclear fuel-processing plant, which supplies fuel to Japanese nuclear reactors — 51 in all — that supply a third of the country’s electricity.
	www.estripes.com /article.asp?section=104&article=25068 (418 words)

	Navy Supply Corps Newsletter: FISC Yokosuka celebrates 50 years of history that makes us all proud …
		FISC Yokosuka is one of the most diverse organizations in the Navy, consisting of U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, active duty and Reserve components, as well as U.S. and Japanese civilians.
		FISC Yokosuka employees, like the crews that worked around the clock at ground zero in New York City and the Pentagon and the fields of Pennsylvania, did what was necessary to recover from the terrorist attacts.
		FISC invited Defense Depot Yokosuka, Japan, and Defense Supply Center Philadelphia to join them in the 50th anniversary celebration because of a shared history and one upon which their partnerships were built.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0NQS/is_5_65/ai_94595741 (1391 words)

	Stars & Stripes
		YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — For the third year in a row, no submarine was in port at Yokosuka Naval Base when the alarm sounded Tuesday morning signaling heightened amounts of radiation.
		The city began the nuclear response practice in 2002.
		In that scenario, the leak was from a U.S. submarine.
	www.stripesonline.com /article.asp?section=104&article=32542 (549 words)

	Walter Doran's 7 Fleet change of command speech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Here in Yokosuka particularly we are blessed to have a great Fleet Activies Commander, Captain Jim Wylie, who has done so much to support this staff and this fleet.
		Here in Yokosuka -- and in our facilities throughout Japan -- we are blessed to live and serve in an environment that is supportive of our presence, surrounded by citizens who appreciate the contribution that these forces make to maintaining peace and stability throughout the region.
		Ozawa and the the Yokosuka Chamber of Commerce… Mayor Sawada and the City of Yokosuka… Mayor Tsuchiya and the City of Yamato and the other communities around Atsugi… and the terrific City leaders from Sasebo and the many U.S. Navy League organizations throughout Asia, particularly Mr.
	www.c7f.navy.mil /news/2000/07/21.html (2585 words)

	Thursday, March 1, 2001
		YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — The city of Yokosuka has withdrawn from a U.S.-Japan friendship festival at the base following the sinking of a Japanese fishing boat by a U.S. Navy submarine near Hawaii last month.
		But city officials announced earlier this week they would not participate this year, believing it would be inappropriate in light of the recent tragedy.
		Yokosuka Naval Base spokesman Mike Chase said Navy officials have not yet decided whether to cancel the celebration.
	www.stripes.com /01/mar01/ed030101j.html (331 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. nuclear sub visit sparks Japanese anger - April 3, 2001
		Sasebo City Mayor Akira Mitsutake called the Chicago's port call an "act of bad faith." It was the first port entry to violate the U.S.-Japan pact, he said.
		Hideo Sawada, mayor of Yokosuka city, warned the sub's unannounced port call could unnerve Japanese, particularly in cities that host U.S. troops.
		Yokosuka, located 45 kilometers (28 miles) southwest of Tokyo, is the site of a U.S. Naval base.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/04/03/japan.us.sub (491 words)

	Yokosuka on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Yokosuka is also known for the tomb of William Adams, first Englishman to visit Japan.
		FISC Yokosuka celebrates 50 years of history that makes us all proud...
		Yokosuka to renew request to U.S. forces on 24-hour notices
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/Y/Yokosuka.asp (509 words)

	Shenmue - Yokosuka
		Yokosuka, city and port in Japan, in Kanagawa Prefecture, on southern Honshû Island and Tokyo Bay, near the city of Tokyo.
		In the city, which is headquarters for a fleet of whaling ships, are automobile-assembly plants and shipyards.
		The development of Yokosuka dates from 1865, when a shipyard was established here.
	shenmue.s5.com /locations.html (154 words)

	Japanese children say 'domo arigato' to visit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Yokosuka, Japan - On Sept. 25, 1998, USS Chancellorsville (CG-62) opened its hatches to the Japanese public as the ship hosted a visit from Seika Yochien (Kindergarten) students of Yokosuka City.
		The visit was organized by the command chaplain Lt. Dwight Horn as a part of the command outreach program, with Chancellorsville Sailors building ties to its new home in Yokosuka, Japan.
		The children were thrilled to be brought the Fleet Activities Yokosuka and aboard an actual ship.
	www.c7f.navy.mil /news/7frel269.html (332 words)

	Dental Team in Japan Rocks, Rolls in Earthquake Drill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The question was posed to a group who visited Yokosuka City’s “Anshinkan” Municipal Disaster Prevention Center recently.
		He said the visit to Yokosuka’s Anshinkan reinforces that training and helps his civilian and military staff, especially those who have not had the opportunity to serve aboard ship.
		The members of the Dental team were then taken on a tour of the rest of Anshinkan, including the Yokosuka City Emergency Management Headquarters and Command and Control Center, located behind Yokosuka City Hall.
	www.news.navy.mil /search/display.asp?story_id=3476 (473 words)

	The Liaison - Center of Excellence DMHA - Hawaii
		In contrast, citizen response through volunteer action was hugely positive; it did much to alleviate victims' suffering as well as ameliorate the not inconsiderable anger and frustration among the injured and displaced of Kobe as they watched...and waited for government assistance.
		Japan's high population density and congested urban environment mean a disaster in either the city or the Navy installation is likely to affect both.
		CNFJ and U.S. Navy installations at Yokosuka and Sasebo are actively engaged in the preliminary stage of discussions with Yokosuka City and Sasebo City officials in an effort to develop DP/DR coordination procedures.
	coe-dmha.org /Liaison/Vol_2No_1/Lia03.htm (2700 words)

	MIKASA PARK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Mikasa, the flagship of the Japanese Imperial Navy, is permanently “docked” in Yokosuka and visitors come from all areas to visit this memorial and museum.
		While the Mikasa was visiting Sasebo on September 11, 1905, an explosion caused by an exploding magazine ripped holes in her hull and she sank in 11 meters of water.
		She was refloated, but again sustained damages caused by the Great Kanto Earthquake of September 1, 1923, when the waters of the Yokosuka Harbor smashed her into the side of a pier.
	www.cfay.navy.mil /fscyoko/maps/mikasa_park.htm (562 words)

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		The prolonged recession is one of the chief causes of an increase in homelessness in Japan.
		Tokyo and other cities have thousands of homeless people, mostly middle-aged and older men.
		Quite a few of them were brought to these circumstances by alcoholism or mental illness, but the number of people who are homeless because of unemployment has risen.
	www.ri.net /schools/East_Greenwich/Cole/govjapninside.html (2899 words)

	Business Wire: The Japan National Tourist Organization Announces The 150th Anniversary of Japan-U.S. Relations
		In addition, at Shimoda City's Ryosenji Temple, an exhibition of artifacts related to Commodore Perry will be on exhibit from April 29-June 30, 2003.
		From May 5-6, the Yokosuka City Museum (www.museum.yokosuka.kanagawa.jp) will showcase Historical Yokosuka, an exhibition of Yokosuka photographs and memorabilia from 1953 - during the 100th anniversary US-Japan relations celebration.
		There are also approximately 200 cities in Japan that maintain sister-city relationships with a counterpart US city.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2003_March_21/ai_99051734 (767 words)

	Brandon Shaffer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He spent his first year of service in San Diego attending various Navy training courses, but was eventually shipped out to the USS HEWITT (DD 966) stationed in Yokosuka, Japan.
		They were married at the Yokosuka City Hall (Window #3) and haven't looked back since.
		Brandon resigned his active duty commission in 1997, but he and Jessicca stayed in Yokosuka for another year so Jessicca could finish her contract with DODs.
	www.brandonshaffer.com /about.html (382 words)

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