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 ...

NAGASAKI -- Kwassui Women's University's ... Vogel of Vories & Co., which worked on many Western-style buildings in Japan. Vogel placed an octagonal tower at the corner of the main building.

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 ...