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Kagoshima - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | The center of the Satsuma Rebellion, the city was destroyed in 1877. |
 | | In 1914 it suffered damage from the eruption of a volcano on Sakurajima, then an island in the bay, and it was bombed (1945) in World War II. |
 | | It was at Kagoshima that St. Francis Xavier landed in 1549. |
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