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Nagasaki (Japanese: 長崎, Hepburn: Nagasaki) (IPA: [naɡaꜜsaki] ⓘ; lit. "Long Cape") , officially known as Nagasaki City ( 長崎市 , Nagasaki-shi ), is the capital and the largest city of the Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan .
Nagasaki Prefecture (長崎県, Nagasaki-ken) is a prefecture of Japan, mainly located on the island of Kyūshū, although it also includes a number of islands off Kyūshū's northwest coast - including Tsushima and Iki. Nagasaki Prefecture has a population of 1,314,078 (1 June 2020) and has a geographic area of 4,130 km 2 (1,594 sq mi).
Nagasaki Station opens. Nagasaki Higher Commercial School founded. [12] Population: 163,324. [1] 1915 - Nagasaki Electric Tramway begins operating. 1923 - Nagasaki Medical College established. [12] 1925 - Population: 189,071. [13] 1945 August 9: Atomic bombing of Nagasaki by US forces. [14] Population: 142,748. [15] 1949 - Nagasaki University ...
Nagasaki. Meiji period industrial site, designation includes the sites of Takashima Hokkei Well Shaft (高島北渓井坑跡), Nakanoshima Mine (中ノ島炭坑跡), and Hashima Mine (端島炭坑跡); inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as among the Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal ...
Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region (Japanese: 長崎と天草地方の潜伏キリシタン関連遺産) is a group of twelve sites in Nagasaki Prefecture and Kumamoto Prefecture relating to the history of Christianity in Japan. The Nagasaki churches are unique in the sense that each tells a story about the revival of Christianity ...
Nagasaki. Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture. colours on silk; by Kawahara Keiga. 97.5 centimetres (3 ft 2.4 in) by 37.3 centimetres (1 ft 2.7 in) 32°45′10″N 129°52′46″E. / 32.752913°N 129.879502°E / 32.752913; 129.879502 ( Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture) [8] Our Lady of Seville, copperplate print. 銅版画 ...
The Nagasaki Battery Sites (長崎台場跡, Nagasaki Daiba-ato) were a group of 23 coastal artillery batteries erected to protect the port of Nagasaki in what is now Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu Japan during the Edo Period Tokugawa shogunate. The ruins one of these sites was designated a National Historic Site in 1986 with the ...
Politics of Nagasaki, as in all prefectures of Japan, takes place in the framework of local autonomy that is guaranteed by the Constitution and laid out in the Local Autonomy Law. The administration is headed by a governor directly elected by the people every four years in first-past-the-post elections. Legislation, the budget and the approval ...