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His funeral, documented in the Japan Chronicle, was described as unprecedented, with the entire Japanese population of Kobe gathering to line the streets and mourn. [2] Sim is buried in the Kobe Foreign cemetery on Mount Futatabi. [4] A monument was erected to Sim by his friends in Higashi Yūenchi park, Kobe, in 1901. [1]
The newcomers settled in the western end of Kobe's foreign district, which soon became the focal point for subsequent Chinese migrants. During that time, many Chinese people from the city of Nanjing also immigrated to the city of Kobe, hence the name of the neighborhood "Nankinmachi" (Nanjing Town). By the early 1920s, Nankinmachi was a vibrant ...
Foreign traders in the Yokohama foreign settlement. A foreign settlement (Japanese: 外国人居留地, pronounced "Gaikokujin kyoryūchi") was a special area in a treaty port, designated by the Japanese government in the second half of the nineteenth century, to allow foreigners to live and work.
Townscape of the Kobe foreign settlement around 1885, on the coastal road Kaigan-dōri. The Kobe foreign settlement (神戸外国人居留地, Kōbe gaikokujin kyoryūchi), also known as the Kobe foreign concession, was a foreign settlement located about 3.5 kilometers east of the Port of Kobe, [1] in the future Chūō-ku of Kobe, Japan.
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Co-op Kobe (Japanese: コープこうべ), officially known as Consumer Co-operative Kobe, is a consumers' cooperative based in Kobe, Japan. It was founded in 1921 by Toyohiko Kagawa, and was later merged with Nada Consumer Co-operative. Now, with over 1.2 million members, it is the largest consumers' cooperative in the world.
Motomachi (Japanese: 元町) is a district of Chūō Ward in Kobe, Japan. [1] It is located between Mount Rokkō and the port of Kobe. [2]It is located adjacent to Nankinmachi (南京町: Kobe Chinatown) and Kyū-kyoryūchi (旧居留地: a foreign settlement in the 19th century: there are several buildings from that time, now used as restaurants or coffee shops.).
The buyers benefit from a lower per-unit cost and, incidentally, from an increased sense of community and sharing. Bulk-food sellers often provide tools so their customers can set up community buyers' clubs. [1] The trend for buyers' clubs, or local co-ops, accelerated starting in the 1970s.