Los Angeles (CA 135) - Naval Cruise Book

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( o ama More than any other city in Japan, Yokohama owes its rise to foreign trade and the Western businessman. One hundred years ago it was a sleepy fishing hamlet of 350 persons hanging onto the skirts of the big harbor city of Kanagawa. Today it has absDrbad Kanagawa, is ths biggest port in Japan and the center of the country ' s second largest industrial area. The diffarence began with the arrival of Commodore Perry ' s Black Ships. They ended 300 years of feudal isolation and anti-foreignism in Japan and paved ths way for treaties of commerce with the Western world. Under these treaties only csrtain ports wera specified as being open for trade. Western businessman overcame objections from diplomatic and other sourcas and pushed Yokohama through as one of the ports so named. Now, seven thousand vessels a year utilize the facilities of the harbor, and the city is home for over a million people.

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Across the Sprouting Nice of the Paddy Fields, the Sound of a Temple Gong Remembered Loveliness to Take Home with You Irasshaimase You are Welcome 45

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1 ' dtHd UICi The -towering Daibutsu a serene figure of the Buddha of Infinite Light and one of Japan ' s most famous landmarks sits as it has for 700 years, legs crossed and hands touching in the Buddhist sign of steadfast faith, unscarred by tidal waves which destroyed and washed away in succession three wooden halls erected to house it. 47