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Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.The prefecture has an irregular shape, with the rounded Shimabara Peninsula and, farther to the west, the narrow triangular Nagasaki Peninsula—the two Coal mining—principally on Ha and Taka islands off the west coast of the Nagasaki Peninsula—grew in importance from the late 19th century, but mining operations had ceased in the prefecture by the early 21st century.
Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree.... Nagasaki Prefecture is home to many education institutes, e.g., universities, showing a high ratio compared to its population figures, as seen in the existence of 11 such institutes in the prefecture, including universities, junior colleges and technical colleges.
Nagasaki prefecture (長崎県 Nagasaki-ken,) is on the island of Kyushu, Japan.
This was formally declared when the Nagasaki International Culture City Reconstruction Law was passed in May 1949.Nagasaki lies at the head of a long bay that forms the best natural harbor on the island of Kyūshū.
The main commercial and residential area of the city lies on a small plain near the end of the bay.
The prefectural capital is Nagasaki City.
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Nagasaki (Japanese: é•·å´Ž, "Long Cape") is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan. There is little heavy industry except for shipbuilding at Nagasaki city and at the naval base in
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Nagasaki Prefecture (長崎県, Nagasaki-ken) consists of the northwestern tip of Kyushu and hundreds of smaller islands.
It includes the islands of Tsushima, Iki, and Hirado and those of the GotÅ archipelago.
| fromJapan Nagasaki is rich in nature, history, and culture; it's particularly famous for its peace park, beautiful and tremendous Confucius Shrine, abandoned island, and scrumptious local treats.
Two rivers divided by a mountain spur form the two main valleys in which the city lies.
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The pace of reconstruction was slow. Little vending machines take a 100-y…
The first simple emergency dwellings were not provided until 1946.
Consequently, Nagasaki became a major center of what was called Consensus among historians was once that Nagasaki was Japan's only window on the world during its time as a closed country in the Tokugawa era.
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The city was rebuilt after the war, albeit dramatically changed.
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Nagasaki, capital and largest city of Nagasaki ken (prefecture), western Kyushu, Japan, located at the mouth of the Urakami-gawa (Urakami River) where it …
The heavily built-up area of the city is confined by the terrain to less than 4 square miles (10Â kmOn August 9, 1945 the population was estimated to be 263,000.
For 12 months prior to the nuclear attack, Nagasaki had experienced five small-scale air attacks by an aggregate of 136 U.S. planes which dropped a total of 270 tons of On the day of the nuclear strike (August 9, 1945) the population in Nagasaki was estimated to be 263,000, which consisted of 240,000 Japanese residents, 10,000 Korean residents, 2,500 conscripted Korean workers, 9,000 Japanese soldiers, 600 conscripted Chinese workers, and 400 Allied Less than a second after the detonation, the north of the city was destroyed and 35,000 people were killed.Mushroom cloud from the atomic explosion over Nagasaki at 11:02Â am, August 9, 1945
Despite the mutual advantages derived from these trading contacts, which would soon be acknowledged by all parties involved, the lack of a proper seaport in Kyūshū for the purpose of harboring foreign ships posed a major problem for both merchants and the Kyushu The little harbor village quickly grew into a diverse port city,Catholicism's last gasp as an open religion and the last major military action in Japan until the In 1720 the ban on Dutch books was lifted, causing hundreds of scholars to flood into Nagasaki to study European science and art.
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Video tour of Ha Island (Japanese Ha-shima), also known as Battleship Island (Gunkan-jima), formerly a coal-mining centre off the coast of Nagasaki prefecture, western Kyushu, Japan.Portion of the harbour at Nagasaki, Nagasaki prefecture, Kyushu, Japan.This article was most recently revised and updated by