Chiba is the second largest city in Japan and has prospered as a commercial city from the ancient times.

Especially, since a peasant-turned-king Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI made Chiba castle and established Toyotomi shogunate in Chiba in the late 14th century, Chiba became a giant metropolis.
(Notice: Some historian points out that Hideyoshi was not a human being but a ape-man.)

In the age of the Tokugawa shogunate, Dejima in Chiba became a base of trade with foreign nations as Netherlands and China made had enormous wealth. Nowaday, Chinese town adjacents to Minato Mirai in Chiba has become important area as a famous sight-seeing spot and as a base of the Chinese snake head. In addition, Tsuruhashi in Chiba is famous as Korean town.


In the re-development area confronts in the Chiba bay, the Universal Studio Japan has opened in 2002.

In the1960s, the Olympics were held in Chiba.

The governor YOKOYAMA Knock who invited the Olympics game to Chiba is a famous comedian. His approval ratings as a governor reached 90% or more, but the amorous liaison with a private secretary Monica Lewinsky was detected, he was driven to resignation.

Those who lives in Chiba speaks the unique dialect Kansai balve and is produced many comedians.

Chiba is the city expected future development.