Higbee (DDR 806) - Naval Cruise Book

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Typical sidewalk merchant THE 2306 pulled into her first lam, nese port of the 1959 cruise gn March 17, 1959. lt was a Welcome sight after several days in rough seas. Yokosulm is always remembered as our hOme,, port of the Orient, Yokosuka, from the beginning a Navy town, has built much of its economic and social structure around the American sailor. Enter. tainers, clothiers, and merchants of every variety have migrated to Yoko- suka. These businessmen and their families have pushed the population to Well over 300,000, ranking it among the top fifteen largest cities in lapgnl Although poverty seems omnipresent, the people exist, content With the satis- factions derived from a simple life. From Yokosulca, the electric railways provided an easy means by which anyone could visit the surrounding country to see the shrines, terraced slopes of rice paddies, high mountains and rough coastline. A a l 1 l I x I 1 l In lm 1. 'I 1. i l l l l 1 l

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Selling wood block prints Beyond the alleys and cluttered existence ex- tending in both directions along the coast, and tar inland, live the fishermen and the farmers in overwhelming numbers. The two occupations employ a total ot nearly 50 per cent of the en- tire lapanese populationg even with so many providers, the country has to import rice and other foods to sustain its rapidly increasing millions.