横浜の米軍根岸住宅地区が79年ぶりに日本へ返還、市は跡地活用を検討

Welcome to Japanese Daily News. I'm Maya. Today is June thirtieth. After seventy-nine years, the Negishi Housing Area used by the U.S. military in Yokohama has been returned to Japan. Let's listen.

Let's break it down.

The U.S. military's Negishi Housing Area in Yokohama was returned to Japan today.

A return, giving land or property back to its original side.

The Negishi Housing Area spans three wards of Yokohama and covers about forty-three hectares.

To span or stretch across two or more areas.

Since nineteen forty-seven, this land had been used as housing for U.S. military officers.

A commissioned officer, a higher rank in the military.

It returns to Japan eighty years after the war, for the first time in seventy-nine years.

The postwar period, the years after the Second World War.

Yokohama's mayor, Takeharu Yamanaka, called it a historic step.

Historic, important enough to be remembered in history.

Yokohama is studying how to use the land that came back.

Careful consideration, examining something before deciding.

At its center, the medical school of Yokohama City University is planned.

The medical faculty, the part of a university that trains doctors.

The land includes state and private parts; the private land will be handed over by the end of fiscal twenty twenty-six.

To hand over, to pass something into another's control.

Let's listen to the full story one more time.

Quiz time. Three questions.

In which city is the Negishi Housing Area? Answer: Yokohama.

About how many hectares is the Negishi Housing Area? Answer: About forty-three hectares.

What did Yokohama's mayor call this return? Answer: A historic step.

That's today's Japanese Daily News. Full transcript with furigana at podcast.jpnotes.dev. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. See you tomorrow.