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 ...