Nagasaki Prefecture, an unification of former provinces of Hizen, Tsushima, and Iki, has had close ties with foreign civilization for centuries.
Nagasaki borders Saga Prefecture on the east, and is otherwise surrounded by water, including Ariake Bay, the Tsushima Straits, and the East China Sea.
As of 2002, there are 68,617 Catholics in Nagasaki Prefecture, accounting for 4.52 percent of the total population of the prefecture.
Iki (壱岐市; -shi) is a city located at Iki Island in Nagasaki, Japan.
As of 2004, the city has an estimated population of 33,202 and the density of 239.81 persons per km².
The city was established in 2004 by merging four towns: Gounoura, Katsumoto, Ashibe, and Ishida.
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Nagasaki Prefecture has had close ties with foreign civilization for centuries.
During the 16th century, Catholic missionaries and traders from Portugal arrived and became active in Hirado and Nagasaki.
After the prohibition of Christianity in the Edo period, foreign trade was restricted to Chinese and Dutch traders in Nagasaki, but Christianity continued underground.
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Nagasaki, available at the train station, post office, etc., is a monthly schedule of happenings (festivals, sports events, etc.) throughout the prefecture (in Japanese).
Both Nagasaki Compass (a church publication) and Nagasaki Beat are free monthly newsheets in English.
Hamano-machi, in Nagasaki, is the place to see hundreds of beautiful kimono on this day, which marks the passage to adulthood and the right to smoke, drink, drive, and vote.
They have created various festivals with their cheerful temperament like the climate in Nagasaki.
"Nagasaki Kunchi" is a festival with a rich international flavor showing us a unique taste of cultural merger between Japanese and oversea countries, which makes the heart dance for joy with the sound of festival music called "Shagiri".
"Nagasaki Lantern Festival" is to celebrate Chinese New Year or "Syunsetsusai (Lunar New Year Festival)", when so many 12,000 lanterns are laid over along the streets of Nagasaki through the center place of the festival, China Town.
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The small island of Nagasaki called Matsushima Island of Seto be at present (on December 1, 1999 808 people of population).I am introducing it about the history and photograph, island of this island.
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August 11, 2003 -- NAGASAKI, Aug. 9 Kyodo Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi attended the annual ceremonies of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
May 1, 1997 -- The ferry terminal in Nagasaki, Japan, is a key component in the urban redevelopment plan of the Nagasaki prefecture.
August 5, 2002 -- NAGASAKI, Aug. 2 Kyodo People in Nagasaki on Friday commemorated the death of 5,529 students and teachers in the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the...
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[click for more] located at Iki Island in Nagasaki, Japan.
As of 2004, the city has an estimated populationIn the most common sense of the word, a population is the collection of people—or organisms of a particular species—living in a given geographic area.
Iki ProvinceIki (壱岐国; -no kuni) was an old province of Japan which is today part of Nagasaki prefecture.
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2.4.1 Merger: Tsushima (1 March 2004) 2.4.2 Merger: Iki (1 March 2004) 2.4.3 Merger: Shimo-Goto (1 August 2004) 2.4.4 Merger: Kami-Goto (1 August 2004) 2.4.5 Absorption: Nagasaki Area (4 January 2005) 2.4.6 Merger: Isahaya (1 March 2005) 2.4.7 Merger: Northern Area of Seihi (1 April 2005) 2.4.8 Absorption: Sasebo, Yoshii and Sechibaru (1 April 2005)
The Merger Council of Nagasaki Area (in Japanese) (http://www.nagasaki-gappei.jp/)
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This calls to mind the creation in 1984 of an investigative body attached to his office by then Chief Cabinet Secretary Fujinami Takao called the "Yasukuni discussion group," which was charged with the task of considering the constitutionality of official visits to the shrine by the nation's prime minister.
The leading constitutional authority among its members, Ashibe Shinkichi, sternly insisted that official visits to Yasukuni Shrine by the prime minister are in violation of the Constitution, and I, too, raised the following two points in opposition.
First, within traditional Shinto, as set forth in the Kojiki and Nihonshoki, it is believed that instead of enshrining the souls of our allies, we should enshrine those of enemies who have been destroyed by them.