The Nagasaki Lantern Festival begun just as a celebration of the Chinese New Year in Nagasaki Shinchi Chinatown by the resident Chinese merchants. It has expanded in 1994 to be a winter staple event throughout the city taking place in the first 15 days of the Chinese lunar new year.
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Nagasaki Trip: The Confucius Shrine
In 1893, the Chinese residents of Nagasaki built the Confucius Shrine or Koshi-byo with the financial support from the Qing Dynasty government in China. It is said to be the only Confucius shrine outside China built by Chinese labor.
Nagasaki Trip: Battleship Island
The abandoned Gunkanjima sits about 9 miles away from Nagasaki. It functioned as a coal mining facility from 1887 to 1974, a former symbol of Japan’s rapid industrialization. Mitsubishi bought the island in 1890 and began to extract coal from undersea mines. Japan’s first large concrete 9-storey building and a block of apartments were built in the island to accomodate the workers. However, Hashima mines were closed in 1974 when petroleum replaced coal in Japan.
Nagasaki Trip: Memoirs of the Atomic Bombing
World War II has been the most destructive conflict in the history of mankind. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain to be the first and only uses of nuclear weapons in armed conflict, killing between 129,000 and 226,000 people. In Nagasaki, the bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945 at 11:02 a.m., 1,650 feet above the city. Nagasaki was chosen because it was a shipbuilding center at that time. On August 15, the Imperial Japan surrendered, finally ending the Pacific War that lasted for 3 years and 8 months.
Nagasaki Trip: Hub of Catholicism In The Far East
Called then as the Ecclesiastical Nagasaki, the Jesuits aimed the city to be the main site of Catholicism in the Far East. However, the Shogunate became wary of colonialism and started to persecute the Christians. Nagasaki then became one of the historical sites of persecution for Catholics. The first time I went to Nagasaki, I took the opportunity to visit the important Catholic sites in the city.
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