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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 ...
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.
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.
Weathercock House (風見鶏の館, Kazamidori no Yakata), built in 1909, overlooks the city of Kobe Kitano Street Kitano-chō (北野町) or Kitano Ijinkan (北野異人館) is a historical district in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, which contains a number of foreign residences from the late Meiji and early Taishō eras of Japanese history.
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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.
Sun Television Co., Ltd. (株式会社サンテレビジョン, Kabushiki-gaisha San Terebijon, SUN, Sun TV) is a commercial television station headquartered in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, and a member of the Japanese Association of Independent Television Stations (JAITS). [1] Sun Television former head office in Kobe International ...