Yokohama Chinatown is a Chinese residential area with a history of 1.40 years, located in Yamashita-CHO, Yokohama Central District, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, commonly known as "Chinatown". Of the 3,000 or 4,000 overseas Chinese living here, their ancestral home is mainly in Guangdong Province, China. Yokohama Chinatown is the largest Chinatown in Japan and even in Asia, and it is also called the three largest Chinatowns in Japan with Kobe Nanjing Town and Nagasaki Xindi Chinatown.
In Yokohama, there are more than 200 restaurants in China alone. Zhonghua Street in Yokohama, Japan is located in Yamashita-CHO, central district of Yokohama. In the past, the Japanese called it "Chinatown", and 19 12 was renamed "Nanjing Street", and it was renamed "Zhonghua Street" after the war.
2. Nanjing-CHO, Kobe
Nanjing-machi is the common name of a narrow area between Honmachi and Rongmachi in downtown Kobe, and it is also the registered trademark of Shopkeep Street Zhenxing Group in Nanjing. For Chinatown full of China flavor. Together with Zhonghua Street in Yokohama and Xindi Zhonghua Street in Nagasaki, it is listed as the three largest Chinese streets in Japan. There are about 100 shops within 200m from east to west and100 meters from north to south.
More than 100 years ago, after China opened a port in Kobe, Japan, they came from afar with China's ingredients, forming the Nanjing market, which is the predecessor of Nanjing Town today. It is also a registered trademark of Nanjing Zhendian Street Zhenxing Group.
Chinatown in Kobe, Japan is different from Chinatown in other parts of the world. It is the only place called Nanjing City. During the Ming Dynasty, the goods exported from China to Japan were famous for their exquisiteness and were deeply loved by the Japanese people. At that time, Nanjing was not only a famous city in China, but also a fleet and export center of Sino-Japanese trade. Nanjing ships and goods produced in Nanjing account for a large proportion, so the Japanese call China goods and even Southeast Asian goods "Nanjing goods" and even China people "Nanjing people".
3. Nagasaki Xindi Zhonghua Street
Shinichi Zhonghua Street in Nagasaki is the Chinatown in Shinichi-CHO, Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It ranks as the three largest Chinese streets in Japan along with Zhonghua Street in Yokohama and Nanjing City in Kobe. The slate route of Xindi Zhonghua Street is assisted by Fuzhou, Fujian Province, twin cities, Nagasaki City. There are about 40 China restaurants and China shops on both sides of the street. It is also the oldest China Street in Japan.
Nagasaki was the only port for Sino-Japanese trade during the Japanese blockade, so this China Street existed as early as17th century. Xindi Zhonghua Street was designed and built by China people themselves, maintaining the pure architectural style of China. The facade of the building here uses a lot of strong colors such as gold, red and yellow, and exquisite dragon and phoenix patterns are frequently seen between beams and columns.
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Chinatown is where China people live in other cities. Chinatown was formed because Chinese immigrated overseas and became a local minority. Facing the new environment, they need to help each other in the same boat, so they live together in an area. Therefore, most Chinatown is a witness to the history of overseas Chinese.
Due to the great influence of the Tang Dynasty on overseas, by the Song Dynasty, "Tang" had already become a synonym for China in southeast overseas countries. During the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, foreign countries called China or something related to China "Tang". Not only the Tang Dynasty was regarded as the land of China, but also China people were called Tang people.
China people have a deep historical complex. The Tang Dynasty was a powerful dynasty in the history of China. Overseas Chinese often call themselves "Tangren", and the place where they live together is conveniently called "Chinatown". Chinatown was originally named "Datang Street".
1673, Nalan Xingde wrote a miscellaneous note on the Green Water Pavilion: "In Japan, people began to go in the Tang Dynasty, and the residents called it' Datang Street', which is ten miles long today." 1875, Zhang Deyi called Chinatown "Tang Dynasty City" in Travel Notes Around Europe and America, which was called Chinatown in English. The history of Chinatown is centuries earlier than the English name Chinatown.
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Baidu encyclopedia Chinatown