Chiba

Chiba (千葉市) is the capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

Overview
Chiba is the capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It sits about 40 kilometers southeast of the center of Tokyo on Tokyo Bay. Chiba City became a government-designated city in 1992. Chiba was a castle town controlled by the Chiba family in the 12th–15th century, and during the Edo (Tokugawa) period it served as a post-station town for several major roads. The town grew after the construction of a railway connecting it with Tokyo in the second half of the 19th century.

Chiba is an new business center. It has a thriving port and behind it a vast area of factory domes and attendant corporate archaeologist. But the most exciting aspect of Chiba is the cutting edge clinics, hospitals and medical research facilities. The best surgeons, geneticists, cybernetics and plastic surgeons are all here with the finest equipment and facilities. But the wealth has created a black market centered in Ninsei (close to Shiga and Baiitsu), caught between the port and the corporate zones. Here deals and double-deals keep an entire black market of smuggling, theft and drug abuse alive. Pharmaceuticals from the clinics and labs finds its way onto the Street and up for sale - to be shipped out across the globe. Experimental products fetch the highest prices.