{"slug": "yokohama", "label": "Yokohama", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokohama", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38283", "qid": "Q38283", "description": "designated city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan", "entries": 18, "years": 16, "span": [1865, 1965], "span_label": ["1865 CE", "1965 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 3}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 2}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "japan", "label": "Japan", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "tokyo", "label": "Tokyo", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "san-francisco", "label": "San Francisco", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "china", "label": "China", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pacific-ocean", "label": "Pacific Ocean", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "japanese-calendar", "label": "Japanese calendar", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "july", "label": "July", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "peru", "label": "Peru", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "south-america", "label": "South America", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "manila", "label": "Manila", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1865, "year_label": "1865 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "December 16", "text": "16 December – Leopold I of Belgium buried in Laken, despite his wish to be buried in Windsor; Auguste t'Kint arrives in Yokohama as the first Belgian diplomat in Japan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365940857", "title": "1865 in Belgium", "revid": 1365940857, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1871, "year_label": "1871 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 28", "text": "January 28 - Japan's first Japanese-language daily newspaper, the Yokohama Mainichi Shinbun, is printed in Yokohama. (Traditional Japanese Date: Eighth Day of the Twelfth Month, Meiji 3)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1299354025#Events", "title": "1871 in Japan", "revid": 1299354025, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1885, "year_label": "1885 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "July", "text": "July – Japan Brewery, predecessor of Kirin Holdings, is founded in Yokohama, Japan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366156062#July", "title": "1885", "revid": 1366156062, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1886, "year_label": "1886 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December 17", "text": "December 17 – English adventurer Thomas Stevens concludes the first circumnavigation by bicycle in Yokohama, having set out on his penny-farthing from San Francisco in 1884.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372679431#December", "title": "1886", "revid": 1372679431, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1887, "year_label": "1887 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December 17", "text": "17 December – English adventurer Thomas Stevens concludes the first circumnavigation by bicycle in Yokohama, having set out on his penny-farthing from San Francisco in 1884.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1334564016#Events", "title": "1887 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1334564016, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1898, "year_label": "1898 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 15", "text": "March 15 – After two months of production, Ang Kalayaan gets published, bearing a false masthead stating that the printing was done in Yokohama when it was in fact done in Lavezares Street, Binondo, Manila. Marcelo H. del Pilar was stated as the editor, but it was Emilio Jacinto who made the final changes before printing, writing under a penname. Dimas-Ilaw, Aguedo del Rosario, and Apolinario de la Cruz subsidised types free of charge but the publisher, Pio Valenzuela, had to secure more, paying a peso for each type sold by four workforces of the Diario de Manila who stole them from the paper's production press.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371898022#March", "title": "1898 in the Philippines", "revid": 1371898022, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1899, "year_label": "1899 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "February 27", "text": "February 27 – Japanese immigration to South America, primarily Peru, begins as the ship Sakura Maru departs from Yokohama with 790 men employed by the Morioka-shokai Sugar Company. The group arrives in Callao on April 3.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371393177#February", "title": "1899", "revid": 1371393177, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1899, "year_label": "1899 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "March 1", "text": "March 1 – Sankyo Pharmaceutical established in Yokohama, as predecessor of Daiichi Sankyo.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1279198662#Events", "title": "1899 in Japan", "revid": 1279198662, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1910, "year_label": "1910 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "November", "text": "November – A confectionery brand Fujiya founded in Yokohama.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366302873#Events", "title": "1910 in Japan", "revid": 1366302873, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1923, "year_label": "1923 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "September 1", "text": "September 1 – The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing more than 100,000 people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367772921#September–October", "title": "1923", "revid": 1367772921, "section": "Events › September–October"}}, {"year": 1923, "year_label": "1923 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "September 1", "text": "September 1 – The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing an estimated 142,807 people, but according to a Japanese construction research center report in 2005, 105,000 are confirmed dead. Varied accounts indicate the duration of the earthquake was between four and ten minutes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366308113#Events", "title": "1923 in Japan", "revid": 1366308113, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1931, "year_label": "1931 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "A time recorder and robot brand, Amano was founded in Yokohama, as predecessor name of Amano Manufacturing.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366308433#Events", "title": "1931 in Japan", "revid": 1366308433, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1942, "year_label": "1942 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 18", "text": "April 18 – WWII: Doolittle Raid – Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle leads a bombing mission against Japan, along with 79 other airmen of the U.S. Air Force, flying 16 North American B-25 Mitchell land-based bombers. They take off from the USS Hornet in the Pacific Ocean, some 700 miles (1,126 km) east of Tokyo. Thirteen of the B-25 bombers fly over Tokyo and drop their bombs on oil storage facilities, factories and military targets. The other three B-25s drop their bombs over Yokohama, Nagoya and Kobe. All but one of the B-25s run out of fuel before reaching friendly forces in western China and are forced to land in Japanese-occupied China. With the support of Chinese farmers, 71 airmen reach free China. Eight airmen are captured by the Japanese, who execute four of them in retaliation for the raid.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372873908#April", "title": "1942", "revid": 1372873908, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1945, "year_label": "1945 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "September 5", "text": "September 5 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist \"Tokyo Rose\", is arrested in Yokohama.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371513862#September", "title": "1945", "revid": 1371513862, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1951, "year_label": "1951 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "April 24", "text": "April 24 – Sakuragichō train fire: in Yokohama, Japan, a fire on a train kills more than 100.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368856437#April", "title": "1951", "revid": 1368856437, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1955, "year_label": "1955 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "February 16", "text": "February 16 – Nearly 100 die in a fire at a home for the elderly in Yokohama, Japan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371173508#February", "title": "1955", "revid": 1371173508, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1963, "year_label": "1963 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "November 9", "text": "November 9 – Tsurumi rail accident: A triple train disaster in Yokohama kills 161.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370539540#November", "title": "1963", "revid": 1370539540, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1965, "year_label": "1965 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "September 27", "text": "September 27 – The largest tanker ship at this time, Tokyo Maru, is launched in Yokohama, Japan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368843670#September–October", "title": "1965", "revid": 1368843670, "section": "Events › September–October"}}]}