Cabildo (LSD 16) - Naval Cruise Book

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SASEBO Sascbo, lies on the northwestern tip of between Japan and the East China Sea. The port is important primarily as on Japan. As a eommereial port, Sasebo is r nient of a naval station in 1886, it has elev to that, it had been an isolated hamlet, the port was geared to the sole purpose of e vessels. By 1940, the population of Sasebo War II and the resulting sharp decline in population, although today, the population Kyushu, guarding the important narrows e of the two major L ' .S. Naval bases in elatively unimportant. Sinee the establish- clopcd into an important naval port. Prior The considerable industrial development of onstructing and maintaining Japanese naval had risen to 205,000. The impact of World production and overseas trade reduced the is around the 1940 census. YOKOSUKA Japan opened her doors to foreign countriis and west(rn civilization after C.o)n- modore Perry ' s landing at Kurihama 14 July 1853. ] ' okosuka until then, was a tnere fishing vUlagc. As it grew in it ' s role of a naval port, Yokosuka inaugurated its city system on 15 February 1907. During sonn 70 years, tlu destiny of Yokosuka as Japan ' s largest naval port has risen or d( clim d fojloiving the inerKrw or dtcrease in the size of the Japanese Navy. After Ihi n ( nd of World War II . Yokosuka h fi h d uj its budding of city industry. Former Japamse nnlitary installations havi bi t n iKinsfornied to such industries as automobiles, cotton-spinning, canned foods, and hydro-dectric power. Thus, Yokosuka has now become a peaceful city of industry ami a port with a population of 280,000. 84

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