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  Nagasaki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nagasaki listen [▶] (長崎市; -shi, literally "long peninsula") is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture located on the south-western coast of Kyushu, the southernmost of the four mainland islands of Japan.
Nagasaki became a free port in 1859 and modernization began in earnest in 1868.
Nagasaki is the title and subject of a 1928 song with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Mort Dixon.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Nagasaki
Nagasaki, capital of the prefecture (ken) of the same name, is situated on a small peninsula on the south-eastern coast of the Island of Kiushiu, Japan.
Prior to the arrival of the Christian missionaries, however, Nagasaki was an insignificant village.
In the territory of the present Diocese of Nagasaki 137 churches of the Jesuits were demolished, as well as their college in Amakusa and their seminary in Arima.
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 Nagasaki, Nagasaki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Nagasaki (長崎市; Nagasaki-shi) is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki prefecture located at the south-western coast of Kyushu, Japan, and is known for being the second, and last, city on which an atomic bomb was dropped, by the US during World War II.
In 1587 Nagasaki's prosperity was threatened when a new shogun, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, came to power.
Nagasaki was greatly devastated by its atomic bombing on August 9, 1945.
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 Nagasaki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Dutch demonstrated that they were interested in trading alone, and demonstrated their commitment during the Shimabara Rebellion by firing on those Christians in support of the shogun.
On 9 August 1945, the primary target for the second atomic bomb attack was the nearby city of Kokura, but the bomber pilot found it to be covered in cloud.
Nagasaki is the title and subject of a 1928 song with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by.
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 Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nagasaki during World War II The city of Nagasaki had been one of the largest sea ports in southern Japan and was of great wartime importance because of its wide-ranging industrial activity, including the production of ordnance, ships, military equipment, and other war materials.
Nagasaki had been permitted to grow for many years without conforming to any definite city zoning plan; residences were erected adjacent to factory buildings and to each other almost as closely as possible throughout the entire industrial valley.
While the damage from these few bombs were relatively small, it created considerable concern in Nagasaki and a number of people—principally school children—were evacuated to rural areas for safety, thus reducing the population in the city at the time of the nuclear attack.
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 BBC ON THIS DAY | 9 | 1945: Atom bomb hits Nagasaki
American airmen flying many miles from Nagasaki have said smoke from fires in the city was rising 50,000ft (15,240m).
Nagasaki is one of Japan's most important ports providing vital access to and from Shanghai.
About 30% of Nagasaki, including almost all the industrial district was destroyed by the bomb and nearly 150,000 people were killed or injured.
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 Travel in Nagasaki - Japan - Asia - History - WorldTravelGate.net®-
Nagasaki capital and largest city, Nagasaki ken (prefecture), western Kyushu, Japan, at the mouth of the Urakami-gawa (Urakami River) where it empties into Nagasaki-ko (Nagasaki Harbour).
The terrain and smaller size of Nagasaki reduced the destruction of life and property as compared to that of the atomic bomb explosion over Hiroshima, although the bomb dropped on Nagasaki was significantly more powerful.
Nagasaki is an important tourist centre; its industry is still based upon its large shipyards, which are grouped along the western and inner parts of the harbour.
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 AllRefer.com - Nagasaki, Japan (Japanese Political Geography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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.
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 Encyclopedia: Nagasaki, Nagasaki
View of Dejima in Nagasaki Bay Scale model of Dutch trading post on display in Dejima (2003) Edo-era boundaries of Dejima island (outlined in red) within the modern city of Nagasaki.
Urakami, Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, is a suburb in Nagasaki, the exact ground zero where the atomic bomb exploded on August 9, 1945.
Karasumi (カラスミ;) is a specialty of Nagasaki and along with salt-pickled sea urchin roe and Konowata one of the so-called three chinmi of Japan.
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 Guy's Trip To Nagasaki | Nagasaki Photos
This is a photo of a display of the four main Portuguese bases in the East - Nagasaki, Malacca (Malaysia), Goa (India) and Macau (China) - each of which was visited by St. Francis Xavier, the globe-trotting Bible basher.
Apart from Catholicism, the other legacy of the Portuguese in Nagasaki is "castella", a sponge cake supposedly invented by the Spanish and brought to Japan by the Portuguese.
It's unfortunate but despite i's colourful history, Nagasaki is most famous for the nuclear bomb dropped on it, a few days after Hiroshima.
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 Travel in Nagasaki - Japan - Asia - Culture - WorldTravelGate.net®-
Nagasaki is a busy and colourful city but its unfortunate fate as the second atomic bomb target obscures its fascinating early history of contact with the Portuguese and Dutch.
At the southern end of Nagasaki, a number of the former homes of the city's European residents have been reassembled in the hillside Glover Garden.
An hour north of Nagasaki is Huis ten Bosch, an astounding recreation of a Dutch town, complete with windmills, dykes, a replica of the Dutch royal family's residence, and a cheese shop.
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 Francis Britto's Brittopia: Diego Yuki, The Martyrs' Hill Nagasaki"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Mubonzan--or Kompira as it is called today--towers over Nagasaki City, coming down to meet her in a descending pattern of undulating hills.
Part of the hill was facing the city and Nagasaki Bay, the other looked out on a murky place, a ravine scattered with human remains, a haunt for wild dogs and birds of prey.
It was in such a place that the martyrs' crosses had been hoisted but some influential Portuguese prevailed on Terazawa Hazaburo, the Governor's brother not to deal with the martyrs as common criminals and suggested the field of wheat on the other side of the road as a better place for execution.
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 NAGASAKI
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 harbour on the southern Japanese home island of Kyushu.
Nagasaki's most famous dish is Chanpon which is a dish of noodles with vegetable and seafood.
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 Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were selected as targets after exhaustive study by military specialists.
Nagasaki was an industrialized city with a natural harbor in Western Kuushu, Japan.
Energy released by the explosion of this type of atomic bomb used over Nagasaki is roughly equivalent to the power generated by exploding 20,000 tons of TNT or 40 million pounds of TNT.
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 [RMSC Collections Department] Nagasaki Tamako   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Nagasaki Tamako, also known as Miss Nagasaki, is an Ambassador Doll - one of 58 sent from Japan to America in 1927 as part of an exchange of dolls between children of the two lands.
Her story spans 75 years: with beginnings as a goodwill gesture in 1927, she travelled throughout the United States, spent decades under the wrong name, was reidentified as a result of a researcher's quest, and now carries out her renewed mission in another century.
There are gulfs of cultures and time to be bridged in order to fully appreciate the significance of Nagasaki Tamako and her sisters - dolls are perceived and valued differently in America than they are in traditional Japanese culture, and differently now than they were in the world of 1927.
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 JNTO Website > Regional Tourist Guides   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Nagasaki Prefecture lies in the northwestern part of Kyushu, and consists of five peninsulas and many islands.
Nagasaki City, which is the heart of Nagasaki-hanto Peninsula, is a port city that developed itself even up along the steep slope of a mountain, while it also stretched horizontally to hug the Nagasaki Gulf.
The spots include the Peace Park which tells of facts and memories of horrible damage that was brought about by the atomic bomb and continues to appeal to the world its wish for peace, and the Christian church, O-ura Tenshudo, which, to date, exudes an exotic atmosphere.
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 HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI / Nagasaki mayor has stern words for America / Bombing commemorations feature paeans to peace as ...
Tuesday in Nagasaki as about 6,000 people gathered at the site of the bombing to remember the 40,000 to 70,000 who died instantly and 74,000 others who were horribly wounded that morning.
Nagasaki simply didn't need to rely on A- bomb history for economic development, said Brian Burke-Gaffney, a Canadian professor of cross-cultural studies who has lived in Nagasaki since the early 1980s.
Nagasaki is still a major base of operations for Mitsubishi, a leading Japanese arms and warship producer during World War II.
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 PHOTOGRAPHS OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI (GENSUIKIN)
In Nagasaki, from an observation point at the air-raid lookout post on Kouyagi Island located about 8 kilometers south of the city, just after the flash it appeared that a huge fireball covered the city, as if it were suppressing the city from the sky.
The Urakami district, the northern part of Nagasaki City, was originally a quiet residential area; but, from around the time of the Japan-China War, munition factories were constructed one aftere another.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki and surrounding areas are still the graveyards of the A-bomb victims.
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 Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The explosive charge for the bomb detonated over Nagasaki three days later was provided by about of 8 kilograms of plutonium-239 (>90% Pu-239), and its preparation depended on the operation of special nuclear reactors.
In Hiroshima, of a resident civilian population of 250 000 it was estimated that 45 000 died on the first day and a further 19 000 during the subsequent four months.
In Nagasaki, out of a population of 174 000, 22 000 died on the first day and another 17 000 within four months.
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 Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Ralph Raico
If the Germans had dropped atomic bombs on cities instead of us, we would have defined the dropping of atomic bombs on cities as a war crime, and we would have sentenced the Germans who were guilty of this crime to death at Nuremberg and hanged them.
The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime worse than any that Japanese generals were executed for in Tokyo and Manila.
Fuller, who was similarly scathing on the terror-bombing of the German cities, characterized the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki as "a type of war that would have disgraced Tamerlane." Cf.
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 Remembering Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Dark Cloud Over Civilization - by Douglas Mattern
People who were outside at the time of the blast simply disappeared, leaving only a shadow on the ground where their bodies had blocked the intense heat from scorching the ground a lighter color.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the development of the far more powerful hydrogen bomb initiated the first period of the nuclear nightmare.
Number one is to end the nuclear terror that began with the fireballs from Hell over Hiroshima and Nagasaki 59 years ago by eliminating all nuclear weapons from the face of the earth.
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 Indepth Guide to the Regions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Stretching east of Nagasaki City, Shimabara Peninsula is home to Shimabara City, which is itself the home of famous Shimabara-Jo, a castle which features a rebuilt keep housing a collection of Christian relics.
In the center of the peninsula is Unzen Onsen, a village of hot-spring hotels which can be reached by bus from JR Nagasaki Station in 2 hours 10 minutes or from JR Isahaya Station in 1 hour 20 minutes.
These two scenic islands, which can be reached by ferry or by air from Hakata and Nagasaki, once served an important role as stopovers for the diplomatic missions which in ancient times shuttled between Japan and the Asian continent.
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 Nagasaki Travel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Nagasaki Travel is a great location whether you are traveling with a family or by yourself.
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When selecting a hotel in Nagasaki Travel, you're going to want to find one close to where you'll be spending most of your time and doing your sightseeing, due to the massive size of the city.
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