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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.
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.
Kobe is the site of Japan's first golf course, Kobe Golf Club, established by Arthur Hesketh Groom in 1903, [53] and Japan's first mosque, Kobe Mosque, built in 1935. [54] The city hosts the Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club, founded in 1870 by Alexander Cameron Sim, [55] and a prominent foreign cemetery.
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]
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.
The Kobe incident (Japanese: 神戸事件, Hepburn: kōbe jiken), also known in Japanese as the Bizen incident (備前事件, bizen jiken) and in English as the Bizen affray or Bizen affair, was a diplomatic incident between Imperial Japan and several Western powers, caused by a skirmish on February 4, 1868, between Bizen soldiers and foreign sailors.
After Japan’s Nikkei market tanked 12.4% on Aug. 5, Fujimoto remained calm, telling Bloomberg: “When the stock price gets low, then it’s time for me to buy stocks.”
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.