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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 genbaku iseki: Nagasaki: Designation includes "Ground Zero", the former Shiroyama National School Building, old Bell Tower of Urakami Cathedral, gatepost of the Former Nagasaki Medical College & second torii gate of Sanno Shrine Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Sites
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 Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum (長崎原爆資料館, Nagasaki Genbaku Shiryōkan) is in the city of Nagasaki, Japan. The museum is a remembrance to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki by the United States on 9 August 1945 at 11:02:35 am. Next to the museum is the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims, built in
Glover Garden (グラバー園, Gurabāen) is a park in Nagasaki, Japan, built for Thomas Blake Glover, a Scottish merchant who contributed to the modernization of Japan in shipbuilding, coal mining, and other fields. In it stands the Glover Residence, the oldest Western-style house surviving in Japan and Nagasaki's foremost tourist attraction.
During the war, Japan brought as many as 670,000 Korean conscripts to Japan to work as forced labor. [312] About 5,000–8,000 Koreans were killed in Hiroshima and 1,500–2,000 in Nagasaki. [ 313 ] Korean survivors had a difficult time fighting for the same recognition as Hibakusha as afforded to all Japanese survivors, a situation which ...
2001 – Nagasaki Penguin Aquarium opens. 2002 – Use of Nagasaki Smart Card on public transit begins. 2005 Iōjima, Kōyagi, Nomozaki, Sanwa, Sotome, and Takashima become part of city. Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture and Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum open. Sister city relationship established with Vaux-sur-Aure, France. [16] 2007