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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]
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.
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.
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.
MV Brazil Maru is a retired Japanese cargo liner that sailed for the Japanese shipping company, Osaka Shosen KK , on the Japan to South America immigrant service from 1954 to 1963. Built by the Shin Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard in Kobe , Japan , she was launched on 6 April 1954 and departed on her maiden voyage later that year.
Goodbye 2024, hello 2025. With the new year only three days into existence, Kevin O'Connor is joined by Yahoo Sports contributor Tom Haberstroh to conjure up ten wild predictions for the remaining ...
Natalia Bryant — the oldest of Kobe and Vanessa's four daughters — threw out the ceremonial first pitch at last year's game, while her little sister, Bianka, 7, did so this year.
In January 2020, Kobe and the couple’s second daughter, Gianna (a.k.a. Gigi), were both killed in a helicopter crash that also took the lives of 7 other people. Kobe was 41 years old, Gianna was 13.