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yokohama
/ˌjoʊkəˈhɑmə/
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What does yokohama mean?
proper noun
- The capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, near Tokyo.
- A town in Aomori Prefecture, Japan.
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Compared, however, with a funeral which I saw in Hong-Kong, the Yokohama ceremony was solemnity in essence.
“I offer you a hundred pounds per day, and an additional reward of two hundred pounds if I reach Yokohama in time.”
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He saw gaol in Signapore, Hong Kong, Yokohama, Shanghai, Canton, and other places.
True, several Chinese banks of a private or official nature have been established, and some of them have been doing a fair business, but candor compels me to say that they are not conducted as scientifically as is the Yokohama Specie Bank, or most American banks.
It was used for driving the immense piles required for the High Level Bridge at Newcastle, the great Border Bridge at Berwick-upon-tweed, the Docks at Tynemouth, the Docks at Birkenhead, the Docks at Grimsby, the new Westminster Bridge, the great bridge at Kief in Russia, the bridge at Petersburg, the forts at Cronstadt, the Embarrage of the Nile, at Yokohama in Japan, and at other places.