The largest port city in Japan – Yokohama is the administrative center of Kanagawa Prefecture. The population is nearly 4 million people, making it the second most number of inhabitants in the town land of the rising sun. Yokohama is located in the Bay of Tokyo , south of Tokyo in the Kant region of Iisland of Honshu. The city is rapidly developing as a major port in Japan in the late XIX century. Today, Yokohama is one of the largest ports in the country, along with Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya), Hakata, Tokyo and Chiba. The city gradually acquires strategic importance for Japan from external and internal business perspective. One after another at the beginning of XX century, representatives of large corporations found their companies in the rapidly growing industrial city. In 1923 a powerful earthquake raze much of the Japanese city. Data reported over 30,000 dead and 40,000 wounded. An interesting detail is that then the majority of local beliefs that natural disaster fell upon them because of the black magic done by Koreans. However irrational beliefs, the townspeople managed to quickly translate their Yokohama. Unfortunately, during the Second World War the city was destroyed again, this time by American bombers. This is not prevented the proud Japanese people to gather strength again and again to resurrect the city from the ashes. Proof of the intransigence of the residents of Yokohama is the fact that 20 years after the bombing – in 1972 officially opened modern Yokohama subway.
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