3805 - Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Yokohama 横浜 is a city of 3.7 million people and located on Tokyo Bay. It is a part of the Greater Tokyo Area, which has a population of 38 140 000 people, and a part of the Keihin Industrial Zone, which describes Yokohama, Tokyo, and Kawasaki as one industrial region. Yokohama is headquarters to Isuzu, Nissan, Keikyu, Bank of Yokohama, among many others.

Yokohama is home to many professional and amateur sports teams and associations. They best known is the Yokohama DeNA BayStars 横浜DeNAベイスターズ, who play in the Japanese Central League. The team has was formed in 1949 and has had many different names. DeNA is a software company and the main sponsor of the team. Yokohama is the current (2024) Japan Series champions. They have also won it it 1960 and 1998. Current Chicago Cubs pitcher, Shota Imanaga 今永昇太, played for the BayStars from 2016 - 2023. He signed a four year, $53 million contact. The Cubs also had to pay $9.825 million to the BayStars as a release fee.

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3584 - Blaine, Minnesota, United States of America

The sender was in Las Vegas recently and bought this card from The Mob Museum. The Mob Museum, officially known as the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, is located in downtown Las Vegas. It open in 2012. It features artifacts, stories, and the history of organized crime in the United States, but also the actions and initiatives by law enforcement to prevent such crimes. The museum is found at the former Las Vegas Post Office and Courthouse, which was built in 1933. The quote on this card was from John Gotti. John Gotti (1940-2002) was the mafioso and boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. After ordering the killing of Gambino boss Paul Catellano in 1985, he took over the family and led what was the United States' most powerful crime syndicate. He was known as The Teflon Don after three high profile trials in the 1980s resulted in acquittals. Later it was revealed that the trials had been tainted by jury tampering, juror misconduct, and...

3564 - Kassel, Hesse, Germany

A wonderful message on this card that translates to to those wh o can wait, everything comes with time.

2346 - Iwate, Iwate, Japan

Keita is a junior high science teacher in Iwate 岩手町. He sent me a photo of the Tokyo Sky Tower during a fireworks display. The Tokyo Sky Tower is a broadcasting and observation tower in Simide, a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis. It became the tallest structure in Japan in 2010. In 2011, when it was completed at a height of 634 meters, it became the tallest tower in the world, and the second tallest structure in the world, after Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE.

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