YOKOHAMA--The city’s famed Chinatown district is all lit up for the annual Spring Festival to ring in the Lunar New Year. The illumination event, now in its 20th year, features 550 lanterns.

Yokohama Chinatown welcomed the New Year with traditional ceremonial performances. In the mid-19th century, the Japanese government opened the country to the world, leading many Chinese immigrants ...

Yokohama’s Chinatown is one of the oldest foreign enclaves to be established in Japan. During the speculative bubble economy of the late 1980s, South Americans of Japanese ancestry, who came to ...