1. Yokohama Chinatown

Yokohama Chinatown is a 140-year-old Chinese residential area located in Yamashita Town, Naka-ku, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is commonly known as "Chinatown" . Among the approximately three to four thousand overseas Chinese living here, the majority are from Guangdong Province, China. Yokohama Chinatown is the largest Chinatown in Japan and even Asia. Together with Kobe Nankinmachi and Nagasaki Shinchi Chinatown, it is also known as Japan's three major Chinatowns.

In Yokohama Chinatown, there are more than 200 Chinese restaurants alone. Chinatown in Yokohama, Japan is located in Yamashita Town, Naka District, Yokohama City. The Japanese used to call it "Chinatown". In 1912, it was renamed "Nankin Street" and after the war it was renamed "Chinatown".

2. Kobe Nankincho

Nankincho is the common name of a narrow area located between Motomachi-dori and Sakaemachi-dori in Chuo-ku, Kobe City. It is also the registration of the Nankinmachi Shopping Street Promotion Association trademark. For a Chinatown full of Chinese flavor. Together with Yokohama Chinatown and Nagasaki Shinchi Chinatown, it is one of the three major Chinatowns in Japan. There are about 100 shops concentrated in an area that is about 200m wide from east to west and 110m long from north to south.

More than a hundred years ago, after the Chinese opened the port of Kobe, Japan, they brought Chinese ingredients from afar and formed the Nanjing Market, which is the predecessor of today's Nanjing Town. It is also a registered trademark of the Nankin Town Shopping Street Promotion Association.

Kobe Chinatown in Japan is different from Chinatowns around the world. This is the only place called Nankin Town. The famously exquisite goods exported from China to Japan during the Ming Dynasty were deeply loved by the Japanese people. At that time, Nanjing was not only a famous city in China, but also the center of Sino-Japanese trade fleets and exported goods. Nanjing ships and goods produced in Nanjing accounted for a large proportion, so the Japanese called Chinese goods and even goods from Southeast Asia. As a "Nanjing thing", the Chinese are even called "Nanjing people".

3. Nagasaki Shinchi Chinatown

Nagasaki Shinchi Chinatown is a Chinatown located in Shinchi Town, Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. Together with Yokohama Chinatown and Kobe Nankincho, it is listed as the three major Chinatowns in Japan. Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, Nagasaki City's sister city, assisted in the construction of the stone pavement in Shinchi Chinatown. There are about 40 Chinese restaurants and Chinese merchandise stores on both sides of the street. It is also the oldest China Street in Japan.

During Japan’s isolation period, Nagasaki was the only port for Sino-Japanese trade, so this China Street was built as early as the 17th century. SHKP Chinatown was designed and constructed by the Chinese themselves, maintaining a pure Chinese architectural style. The facades of the buildings here use a lot of strong colors such as gold, red, and yellow, and dragon and phoenix patterns with beautiful meanings are often seen on the beams and between the columns.

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Chinatown is an area where Chinese people live together in cities in other countries. Chinatowns were formed because the Chinese immigrated overseas and became a local minority group. Facing the new environment and needing to work together to help each other, they lived in groups in the same area. Therefore, most Chinatowns are a testimony to the history of overseas Chinese.

Due to the huge influence of the Tang Dynasty on overseas countries, during the Song Dynasty, "Tang" had become the name for China in Southeast Asian countries. From the Song Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, foreign countries called China or things related to China "Tang". Not only "Tang" is used as a proxy for the place of "China", but the Chinese are also called "Tang people".

Chinese people have a deep historical complex. The Tang Dynasty was a powerful dynasty in Chinese history. Overseas Chinese often call themselves "Tang people", and the places where they live are called "Chinatowns". Chinatown was first called "Great Tang Street".

In 1673, Nalan Xingde's "Lushui Pavilion Miscellaneous Knowledge" said: "In Japan, people began to go there in the Tang Dynasty, and those who lived there called it 'Great Tang Street', which is now ten miles long." In 1875, Zhang Deyi called Chinatown "Chinatown" in his "Travel Notes on Europe and America". He knew English, and in English, Chinatown was called Chinatown. The history of Chinatown predates the English name Chinatown by several centuries.

Reference materials:

Baidu Encyclopedia Chinatown