Nagasaki

Nagasaki {{Audio|ja-Nagasaki.ogg|listen}} (長崎市; -shi, literally "long peninsula") is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture located on the south-western coast of Kyushu, the southernmost of the four mainland islands of Japan. It was a center of European influence in medieval Japan from first contact through the era of isolationists efforts to block outside contact until the opening of Japan and the resultant modernization efforts of Japan during the Meiji Restoration. It became a major Japanese Navy Fleet Base during the First Sino-Japanese war and Russo-Japanese war and eventually was the second city on which an atomic bomb was dropped by the US during World War II.

Sister Cities

'Nagasaki's Sister Cities

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• Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States - (1955) Oldest sister city in Japan
• Santos, Brazil (1972)
• Porto, Portugal (1978)
• Middelburg, Netherlands (1978)
• Fuzhou, People's Republic of China (1980)
• Vaux-sur-Aure, France (2005)