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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.
Nankin-machi in the 1930s. Nankin-machi originated in 1868, when Kobe's port was opened to foreigners including Chinese immigrants from Guangdong and Fujian.The newcomers settled in the western end of Kobe's foreign district, which soon became the focal point for subsequent Chinese migrants.
Onohama Shipyards was established by Edward Charles Kirby, a British expatriate merchant during late Bakumatsu period and early Meiji period Japan. Kirby came to Japan in 1865, as soon as the country ended its national isolation policy and was opened to foreign trade, and established a chandlery, Kirby & Co in the foreign settlement at Yokohama.
During the Meiji Period, many Europeans and Americans lived in the bay-front foreign settlement in Kobe, introducing various aspects of foreign culture into Japan. [ 4 ] The British-born trading merchant Arthur Hesketh Groom (1846–1918) built a summerhouse atop Mt. Rokko , an area he chose for its peace and quiet as a perfect location for ...
The Consulate-General of the United States in Osaka-Kobe (Japanese: 駐大阪・神戸米国総領事館), commonly referred to as the U.S. Consulate-General in Osaka, is a consular post of the United States in Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The inclusion of "Kobe" in the name stems from its previous location in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture.
Foreign buyers bought 84,600 properties from April 2022 to March 2023, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). That’s the lowest level since 2009 and down 14.2% from a year earlier.
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.).
It was founded in 1946 as Kobe Municipal College of Foreign Affairs (神戸市立外事専門学校, Kōbe shiritsu gaiji semmon gakkō), a coeducational college with a three-year curriculum. Kobe City was heavily damaged in World War II , and it founded the college to help restore the port city.