Chiba (千葉市) is the capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan.[1]
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.
By 2077, Chiba would be home to various slums, the most infamous of which was Chiba-11, where Arasaka would often pluck youths from the street to conscript into their corporate army.
Chiba-11[]
Chiba-11 is the poorest district within Chiba, Japan. Chiba-11 is made up of slums and chemical filled canals, the district by 2077 had the highest rate of murders in all of the country. Because of the crime rate, the Arasaka Corporation would patrol the district daily.
Goro Takemura grew up in this district, where his father owned a Ramen shop.[2]
Notable Residents[]
References[]
- ↑ PASQUARETTE, C. Pacific Rim Sourcebook. 1st ed., Berkeley, CA, R. Talsorian Games, 1994. (p.??)
- ↑ CD Projekt RED. Cyberpunk 2077. Video Game, Multi-Platform. Poland, CD Projekt S.A., 2020.