Nagasaki became an open port and a new foreign settlement was established in a coastal area to the south of Dejima. Even today, there are old-fashioned Western-style buildings dotted around the ...

In Nagasaki, part of the destroyed building known as the Peace Memorial Hall receives around 30,000 visitors each year. At the same time, the number of those who still remember the attack is ...

Nagasaki – scenic ... Glover Villa is the oldest Western-style building in Japan (1863). Scotsman Thomas Glover started Kirin, now one of Japan’s biggest breweries; his marriage to a geisha ...

In both cases, nation-building in the 16th century — in Tudor ... My interest in Japanese Catholicism was reignited recently by the Nagasaki Bell Project, a noble effort being led by professor ...

TOKYO — Shigemi Fukahori, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing, who devoted his life to advocating for peace and campaigning against nuclear weapons, has died. He was 93. Fukahori died ...

The Urakami Cathedral is seen in Nagasaki, southern Japan, Saturday, April 26, 2025. The Urakami Cathedral is seen in ...

NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) — Decorated with colorful paper cranes and blooming flowers, it doesn’t look the scene of a tragedy. On Aug. 9, 1945, U.S. forces detonated an atomic bomb over Nagasaki.