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	Nagasaki Prefecture - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		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.
		On October 1, 2005, city of Hirado and the towns of Ikitsuki and Tabira and the village of Oshima (all from Kitamatsuura District) merged to form the city of Hirado.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Nagasaki_Prefecture (826 words)

	Columbia Encyclopedia- Nagasaki - AOL Research & Learn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Nagasaki's port, the first to receive Western trade, was known to Portuguese and Spanish traders before it was opened to the Dutch in 1567.
		Nagasaki was gradually reopened to general foreign trade during the 1850s.
		During World War II, on Aug. 9, 1945, Nagasaki became the target of the second atomic bomb ever detonated on a populated area; about 75,000 people were killed or wounded, and more than one third of the city was devastated.
	reference.aol.com /columbia/_a/nagasaki/20051206224609990020 (226 words)

	Hirado - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Hirado
		Hirado city covers all of Hirado island (Hiradoshima) and is linked to Kyushu by a bridge.
		The main industries are tourism based on the remains of Hirado castle, the former Dutch trading post, Orandabashi (Holland Bridge) and blue and white porcelain (Hiradoyaki).
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Hirado?x (176 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Nagasaki
		De-shima or De-jima, artificial island, c.40 acres (16 hectares), Nagasaki prefecture, W Kyushu, Japan, in Nagasaki harbor.
		The Portuguese traded at its port c.1550, and Dutch and English factories were established in the early 17th cent.
		The biological action of radiation is not fully understood, but it is believed that a disturbance in cellular activity results from the chemical changes caused by ionization (see ion).
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Nagasaki (568 words)

	Friendship Visit to Hirado Kindergarten
		Hirado Kindergarten found out about the Friends (or Quakers) who had sent the doll in 1927 and about the Wilmington College teacher for whom the doll was named.
		In the last half of the 1500s and the first half of the 1600s, Hirado was a thriving trading port, and the city still retains some the Dutch influence from that time.
		Hirado was the first seaport opened to Dutch traders at a time when Japan had practically no contact with the outside world.
	wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu /dolls/visits/oct2002/hirado/index.htm (884 words)

	Nagasaki Hotels
		Nagasaki (長崎市; -shi, literally "long peninsula") is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture located at the south-western coast of Kyushu, Japan.
		Nagasaki lies at the head of a long bay which forms the best natural harbor on the southern Japanese home island of Kyushu.
		During the 16th century, Catholic missionaries and traders from Portugal arrived and became active in Hirado and Nagasaki, which became a major center for foregin traders.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/142/nagasaki-hotels.html (1403 words)

	2007 SPRING KYUSHU CHUGOKU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		We’ll continue on to the city of Nagasaki, passing over the Saikai Bridge where you may be able to view the swirling waters of the straits.
		On arrival at Nagasaki, we will visit some of the well-known sites of the city, including Glover Mansion, known as the setting for Puccini’s opera “Madame Butterfly” and Oura Catholic Church, the oldest wooden church of Gothic architecture in Japan and built to serve Nagasaki’s foreign community.
		This morning, we’ll depart Nagasaki and continue on to Unzen, an active volcanic center located in the central section of the Shimabara Peninsula and known for its bubbling and spurting jigoku (hells).
	kobay.com /kts/trj20070328a.php (1446 words)

	Friendship Visit with Miss Nagasaki Homecoming Committee
		This summer two members of the Miss Nagasaki Homecoming Committee invited me to visit Nagasaki Prefecture's two remaining Blue-eyed Dolls, one at Shimabara Daiichi Elementary School and the other at Hirado Kindergarten.
		Since the time of the discovery, many people in Nagasaki Prefecture have been working actively to bring about a homecoming for Miss Nagasaki, one of the 58 Friendship Dolls sent from Japan in 1927 as a gift to the children of America.
		The citizens of Nagasaki Prefecture are anxiously waiting for the exhibition of Miss Nagasaki from February to April 2003 in the cities of Nagasaki, Sasebo, Hirado, and Shimabara.
	wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu /dolls/visits/oct2002/nagasaki (1186 words)

	Nagasaki, Fukuoka Urban Heat Islands
		The cities of Fukuoka, with a population of over a million, and Nagasaki (around 500,000) are the major centers on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu.
		Graph 1 shows Fukuoka, Nagasaki, and two stations classified in the GHCN as rural: Izuhara, on Tsushima Island in the Korea Strait; and Hirado, on the SW tip of Kyushu, which was not included in the CRU dataset.
		There are any number of possible explanations: Nagasaki and Hirado might have had non-climatic warming jumps in 1960 due to site or equipment changes, or perhaps all the stations had such changes.
	www.warwickhughes.com /climate/kyushu.htm (986 words)

	DisciplesWorld : World News
		Nagasaki has long been a stronghold of Christianity in Japan, but the city has become known more recently as the second place to suffer an atomic bombing, when it was attacked in 1945 at the end of the Second World War.
		"It was in Nagasaki where the churches were built after Xavier sowed the seeds that prospered; they suffered oppression for 250 years but were able to maintain their faith and witness to the resurrection," Kazutoshi Kakimori, secretary general of the group, told Ecumenical News International.
		In 1867, French missionary the Rev. Bernard Petijean came across some of their descendants in Nagasaki, six years before the prohibition of Christianity was lifted in 1873.
	www.disciplesworld.com /newsArticle.html?wsnID=10088 (339 words)

	The International Role of the Overseas Chinese in Hirado (Nagasaki) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Portugal, Spain, Holland, and England had all reached the archipelago and Hirado (Nagasaki) revealed itself to be one of the most important bases in the international sea-trade network in the Far East.
		Turning now specifically to Hirado from the first half of the seventeenth century, Europeans had already reached the island several times with the intention of trading, albeit their settlements were established later on.
		Hirado was cut off from the international sea-trades routes, its place taken by Nagasaki.
	nanyang.xmu.edu.cn /printpage.asp?ArticleID=1050 (3585 words)

	Rebellion at Shimabara
		Beginning in 1569, the Shimabara Peninsula, which stretches southeastward from Nagasaki, and the Amakusa Islands to the south of the peninsula became home to thousands of Christian converts thanks to the missionary activities of Father Luis d'Almeida and the supportive efforts of the Christian daimyo Konishi Yukinaga.
		Living in grinding poverty and unable to tolerate the unceasing insolence and atrocious tyranny of the governors and Lord Matsukura's officers, the peasants of Shimabara believed the end was near and desperately looked for a savior to deliver them.
		In 1640, the Dutch factory on Hirado was ordered to move to Deshima, a rocky, artificial island exactly one hectare in size originally built in Nagasaki Bay in 1635-36 to house Portuguese merchants.
	www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Ket/C14/E1404.htm (3693 words)

	asahi.com：Cover Story: Matter of faith - ENGLISH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		HIRADO, Nagasaki Prefecture--For 90-year-old farmer Tomeichi Ooka, the words he chanted each morning were nothing more than mumbo jumbo.
		Shigeo Nakazono is curator of the Shimanoyakata museum at Ikitsuki in Hirado.
		In 1965, Nagasaki's hidden Christians were declared an intangible folklore cultural asset that should be recorded and preserved.
	www.asahi.com /english/Herald-asahi/TKY200609290175.html (1269 words)

	E-ASPAC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Nagasaki was not just the geographic locus of Chinese residents in Tokugawa Japan, but in many Japanese travelers’ minds it was a convincing substitute for China itself.
		Nagasaki thus being recognized as both a Dutch and a Chinese international port in the Japanese popular imagination, solidified its reputation as a cosmopolitan cultural capital.
		While Chinese Nagasaki was but a microcosm of China proper, one cannot ignore the larger significance of Chinese residents in the city throughout kaikin restrictions on travel abroad, and the compelling desire of Tokugawa-period Japanese like Hishiya Heishichi, Furukawa Kosh?ken, and Tachibana Nankei, to experience China through the medium of travel to this renowned port.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /easpac/2005/dewell.php3 (7286 words)

	Nagasaki: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hiroshima Nagasaki: one necessary evil, one tragic mistake...of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki fifty years ago unleashed a debate that...declared: "The name Hiroshima, the name Nagasaki are names for American guilt and shame...
		Byline: The Register-Guard Hiroshima, Nagasaki bombings commemorated The 59th anniversary of the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan during World War II will be commemorated Saturday in Alton Baker Park...
		He was sent to the mines and, after...the force of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/nagasaki.jsp (1630 words)

	Bingo - Play Online Bingo for fun at bingofantasy
		The capital is the city of Nagasaki, Nagasaki History in NagasakiNagasaki Prefecture, an unification of former provinces of Hizen Province bingofantasy Tsushima Province and Iki Province has had close ties with foreign civilization for centuries.
		Facing China and Korea, the region around Hirado, Nagasaki was a traditional center for traders and pirates.
		Geography Nagasaki borders Saga Prefecture on the east, and is otherwise surrounded by water, including Ariake Bay, the Tsushima Straits, and the East China Sea.
	www.l-bingo.com /bingo_sites/bingofantasy.html (452 words)

	Dutch Traders in Japan
		The activities of both groups were restricted to their respective factories in Hirado and Nagasaki, and their activities closely monitored (Goodman 11).
		The fortunes of the bustling port of Nagasaki had declined rapidly after the expulsion of the Portuguese; the town elders successfully petitioned the bakafu to have the Dutch trade transferred there as recompense (Boxer 155).
		The Dutch trade vessels usually arrived at Nagasaki in mid-summer and were greeted by the Deshima directory--the opperhoofd-- as well as a few interpreters and bakafu officials.
	filebox.vt.edu /users/jojacks2/words/redhairs.htm (3219 words)

	William Adams (sailor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They were assisted by one of Adams's shipmate Melchior van Santvoort for their preparations to establish a trading factory in Hirado, who also accompanied two Dutch delegates by the names of Puyck and van den Broek, bearing a letter from Prince Maurice of Nassau, to the court of Edo.
		Adams had actually advised against the choice of Hirado which was small and far away from the major markets in Osaka and Edo and instead had recommend to Saris, in vain, that they should select Uraga near Edo.
		Adams died at Hirado, north of Nagasaki, on May 16, 1620, aged 56 and was buried in Nagasaki-ken where his grave marker may still be seen to this day, alongside a memorial to Saint Francis Xavier.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Adams_(sailor) (5235 words)

	Japan - Seclusion and Social Control (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		More restrictions came in 1616 (the restriction of foreign trade to Nagasaki and Hirado, an island northwest of Kyushu), 1622 (the execution of 120 missionaries and converts), 1624 (the expulsion of the Spanish), and 1629 (the execution of thousands of Christians).
		In 1636 the Portuguese were restricted to Deshima, a man-made islet--and thus, not true Japanese soil--in Nagasaki's harbor.
		Soon thereafter, the Portuguese were permanently expelled, members of the Portuguese diplomatic mission were executed, all subjects were ordered to register at a Buddhist or Shinto temple, and the Dutch and Chinese were restricted, respectively, to Deshima and to a special quarter in Nagasaki.
	countrystudies.us /japan/20.htm (389 words)

	Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire . Timeline - 1600s \| PBS
		Foreign ships were only permitted to enter Nagasaki Harbor, and Japanese ships had to be certified to travel abroad.
		Taxed near to starvation, peasants on the Shimabara Peninsula near Nagasaki revolted against the local daimyo, swarming into the abandoned Hara Castle.
		But they were ordered to move from Hirado to Dejima, an artificial island in Nagasaki harbor which had been originally planned for the Portuguese.
	www.pbs.org /empires/japan/timeline_1600.html (1667 words)

	A Glympse of The English House and English Life at Hirado, 1613-1623, M. Paske-Smith
		This Hill was known as Maruyama and when the Dutch moved to Nagasaki in 1641 the name of the hill was transferred to the same quarter in Nagasaki, where to-day (1927) the geisha quarter is still called "Maruyama" after its original on Hirado.
		The place of his burial must have been 'Our ordenary buriall place' because it was not until February 1621 that the English received the grant from the Feudal Lord for a special plot of land as a cemetary.
		That no tombstones exist is easy to understand, for, but a year or so after the death of Adams, the Christian persecution broke out with such ferocity that all cemeteries and Christian tombstones were overthrown and the bones dug up and scattered to the four winds.
	www.baxleystamps.com /litho/misc/eh_hirado.shtml (824 words)

	Pilgrimage to Japan NIPPON EXPRESS TRAVEL USA, INC.
		Upon arrival at Nagasaki, start a city tour including the Martyrdom of the 26 Saints of Japan; Peace Memorial Park; Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum; and Urakami Cathedral for the Mass.
		In the afternoon, go to Hirado to visit St.Francisco Xavier Cathedral (for the Mass); and Hirado Museum.
		After the Mass at Urakami Cathedral in the morning, transfer to Nagasaki Airport for your return flight.
	www.nipponexpresstravel.us /en/japan_specials/japan_tour/pilgrimage.htm (705 words)

	Nagasaki Post
		TOKYO: Previously unpublished letters by Albert Einstein to a Japanese pen pal show the physicist to be defensive over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which became possible throu...
		FUKUOKA (Kyodo) The Nagasaki Municipal Government has placed an order with the same contractor for 25 years for setting up the site for its annual peace memorial for atomic bomb victims, according to city offic...
		Japan Times NAGASAKI (Kyodo) A 12-year-old boy in Hirado, Nagasaki Prefecture, was reported to a local child-wel...
	archive.wn.com /2005/07/09/1400/nagasakipost (637 words)

	Isahaya Nagasaki guide web sites
		Describes shore excursions to Nagasaki, Shimabara and Arita.
		"Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb." Philip Goodman.
		Crossroads: A Journal of Nagasaki History and Culture Crossroads, Inc. English-language annual publication; many of the print articles on the web site.
	spot.pcc.edu /~jsparks/ESOLClassLinks/Isahaya/IsahayaGuideWeb.htm (640 words)

	A Chronology of Japanese History
		All foreign trade, except Chinese, is retricted to Nagasaki and Hirado.
		The English abandon their trading post at Hirado and abandon the idea of trading with Japan.
		A Dutch warship enters Nagasaki harbor with an envoy carrying a letter to the Shōgun from the King of Holland.
	www.shikokuhenrotrail.com /japanhistory/edohistory.html (5521 words)

	Diaries kept by the head of the Dutch Factory in Japan
		Le Maire’s predecessor, Francois Caron, was ordered to destroy the newly constructed storehouses in Hirado and to have a new chief factor appointed every year.
		Le Maire was ordered to move the factory from Hirado to Nagasaki, which would become the single port of entry for the Dutch.
		He was also ordered to dismiss most of the Japanese clerks from the factory and not to blow trumpets in and around Nagasaki.
	www.hi.u-tokyo.ac.jp /tokushu/kaigai/diariesD/vol5.html (392 words)

	Japan 1615-1875 by Sanderson Beck
		Cities were administered by magistrates, and the Nagasaki magistrate had the added duty of supervising foreign trade as a monopoly for the Bakufu.
		Foreign trade at Nagasaki was promoted by exporting more copper as well as dried shark fins, sea slugs, and seaweed from Hokkaido.
		The next year a British vessel asked for food and supplies at Nagasaki, whose governor was so ashamed of their lack of defenses that he committed suicide.
	www.san.beck.org /3-12-Japan1615-1875.html (23352 words)

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