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Nagasaki Prefecture

	Nagasaki Prefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 January 1, 2006, the city of Matsuura and the towns of Fukushima and Takashima from Kitamatsuura District merged to form the city of Matsuura.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nagasaki_Prefecture (786 words)

	Nagasaki Prefecture - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The majority was sent to Jagatara (Jakarta) and are still remembered by the locals as the people who wrote the poignant letters which were smuggled across the sea to their homeland.
		During the Meiji Restoration, Nagasaki and Sasebo became major ports for foreign trade, and eventually major naval bases and shipbuilding centers up to World War II.
		As of 2002, there are 68,617 Catholics in Nagasaki Prefecture, accounting for 4.52 percent of the total population of the prefecture.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Nagasaki_Prefecture (821 words)

	Nagasaki Prefecture - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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.
		The Christian belief in equality between men, however, did not comply with the political structure of Japan, and after being given free reign in Oda Nobunaga's period, the missionaries were forced out little by little, until finally, in the Tokugawa era, Christianity was banned.
		The Towns of Koyagi, Iojima, Takashima, Nomozaki, Sanwa and Sotome were absorbed into the City of Nagasaki.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Nagasaki_Prefecture (744 words)

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		The method of suppression was extremely systematic, including efumi (the forcing of all Nagasaki citizens to trample on metal images of Christ or Mary), sonin hosho seido (monetary awards to persons revealing the names of Christians) and terauke seido (the compulsory registration of all Japanese citizens as parishioners of Buddhist temples).
		In Sotome and the Goto Islands, where the disintegration of hidden Christian communities is particularly evident, the number of annual events observed by the kakure kirishitan has dwindled drastically.
		The history and customs of the hidden Christians of Nagasaki remain as another rare and invaluable example of the amalgamation of a foreign religion into the native culture of Japan and, in a larger sense, of the ever-difficult encounter between East and West.
	www.uwosh.edu /home_pages/faculty_staff/earns/miyazaki.html (2491 words)

	Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Nagasaki borders Saga Prefecture on the east, and is otherwise surrounded by water, including Ariake Bay, the Tsushima Straits, and the
		Sanwa and Sotome were absorbed into the City of Nagasaki.
		Catholics in Nagasaki Prefecture, accounting for 4.52 percent of the total population of the prefecture.
	www.brujula.net /english/wiki/Nagasaki_Prefecture.html (348 words)

	Saint Augustine - Thomas Jiyhoe - 02
		Father Thomas Jihyoe was and is better-known in Nagasaki as “Kintsuba” Jihei or Jihyoe; “Kintsuba” literally means “golden sword-guard” because he is said to have often carried a sword with a golden sword-guard engraved with a cross.
		The officials of the Nagasaki magistrate’s office, mobilizing soldiers, sometimes as many as 500, searched the sea and the mountains but they were unable to capture him.
		Masayuki Yamasaki, a parishioner from Kurosaki, part of Sotome, ‘discovered’ or verified with another parishioner in 1983 the cave where, according to the local tradition handed down through generations, Father Thomas hid himself when ministering to the Christians in the region, and the same Mr.
	www.augnet.org /default.asp?ipageid=1331&iParentid=756 (3185 words)

	GUIDE TO PILGRIMAGE SITES AND CHURCHES IN NAGASAKI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Marc-Marie de Rotz was born into a family of French aristocrat in Vaux-sur-aure in 1840.
		He studied at a divinity school and came to Nagasaki in 1868 as a missionary of Paris Foreign Missioners.
		De Rotz set up a print shop and worked for publishing work to propagate Christianity in Nagasaki and Yokohama.
	www.tca-japan.com /en/htmle/pagej02-1.html (61 words)

	Kyodo World News Service: Drafts of Endo's novel 'Silence' found in Nagasaki+@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Drafts of Endo's novel 'Silence' found in Nagasaki+
		Manuscript drafts and notes used by the late novelist Shusaku Endo in writing one of his best-known works, "Chimmoku" (Silence), have been found in Nagasaki, a museum official said Tuesday.
		The discovery of a diary, 20 pages of handwritten notes by Endo (1923-1996), and other materials related to his 1966 novel at the Endo Shusaku Literary Museum in Sotome, Nagasaki Prefecture, will surprise scholars as Endo himself said he had destroyed such drafts.
	highbeam.com /doc/1P1:93157450/Drafts+of+Endos+novel+Silence+found+... (180 words)

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