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    Nagasaki (Japanese: 長崎, Hepburn: Nagasaki) (IPA: [naɡaꜜsaki] ; lit. "Long Cape"), officially known as Nagasaki City (長崎市, Nagasaki-shi), is the capital...
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    States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people, most of whom were...
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    Nagasaki Prefecture (長崎県, Nagasaki-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Nagasaki Prefecture has a population of 1,314,078 (1...
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    (Japanese: 浦上天主堂, romanized: Urakami Tenshudō) after its location Urakami, is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Motoomachi, Nagasaki, Japan. In 1865...
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    Portuguese Nagasaki and Ecclesiastical Nagasaki refer to the period during which the city of Nagasaki was under foreign administration, between the years...
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    The Archdiocese of Nagasaki (Latin: Archidioecesis Nagasakiensis, Japanese: カトリック長崎大司教区) is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church located in...
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    of Catholics who were executed by crucifixion on February 5, 1597, in Nagasaki, Japan. Their martyrdom is especially significant in the history of the...
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    Great Martyrdom of Nagasaki, was the execution of 55 foreign and domestic Catholics killed together at Nishizaka Hill in Nagasaki, Japan, on 10 September...
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    Magdalene of Nagasaki (長崎のマグダレナ, Nagasaki no Magudarena) was a Japanese Christian who served as a translator and catechist for the Augustine Recollect...
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    Nagasaki Shinchi Chinatown (Japanese: ながさき しんち ちゅうかがい, 長崎新地中華街, Simplified Chinese: 长崎新地中华街) is an area located in Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan. Today this...
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  • name romanized as Iccho Itoh in his English language letter to U.S. President George W. Bush. In 1973, Itoh became the chairman of the Nagasaki City Youth...
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    of Japan (日本二十六聖殉教者聖堂) is a Catholic minor basilica and co-cathedral in Nagasaki, Japan, built soon after the end of the Japanese government's Seclusion...
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    Church in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Nagasaki 長崎, in southern Japan. Its episcopal see is the Cathedral of St. Francis...
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    Nagasaki Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (長崎放送株式会社, Nagasaki Hōsō kabushiki gaisha), also known as NBC, is a broadcasting station in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan...
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    at embassy-level in national capital Tokyo. Metropolitan Archdiocese of Nagasaki Diocese of Fukuoka Diocese of Kagoshima Diocese of Naha Diocese of Oita...
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    ecclesiastical province of Nagasaki 長崎 in Japan. July 16, 1927: Established as Diocese of Fukuoka from the Diocese of Nagasaki Fernand-Jean-Joseph Thiry...
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  • has its see in Australia. Ecclesiastical Province of Nagasaki Metropolitan Archdiocese of Nagasaki 長崎 Diocese of Fukuoka 福岡 Diocese of Kagoshima 鹿児島 Diocese...
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    Hizen Province (category History of Nagasaki Prefecture)
    missionaries. Hirado, and later Nagasaki became major foreign trade centers, and a large percentage of the population converted to Roman Catholicism. Toyotomi Hideyoshi...
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    fewer than 1,000 followers, to being the majority religion of the entire Roman Empire by AD 400, has been examined through a wide variety of historiographical...
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    Paul Aijirō Yamaguchi (category People from Nagasaki Prefecture)
    prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Nagasaki from 1937 to 1968. Yamaguchi was born in Nishisonogi District, Nagasaki (currently...
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    Hibakujumoku (category Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
    Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The term is from Japanese: 被爆, romanized: hibaku, lit. 'bombed, A-bombed, nuked' and Japanese: 樹木, romanized: jumoku, lit...
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    Roman Empire are a historical theme that was introduced by historian Edward Gibbon in his 1776 book The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire...
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    Amakusa Shirō (category 17th-century Roman Catholic martyrs)
    he was executed at the age of 17. His head was displayed on a pike near Nagasaki as a warning to Christians. His failures were reflected in the 1962 movie...
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  • Jean-Claude Combaz (category French Roman Catholic bishops in Asia)
    Saint-Béron - 1926) was a French clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nagasaki. He was ordained in 1880. He was appointed in 1912. He died...
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    of Kirishitan still survived in some regions near Nagasaki. Some officially returned to the Roman Catholic Church. Others remained apart from the Catholic...
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    The continuation, succession, and revival of the Roman Empire is a running theme of the history of Europe and the Mediterranean Basin. It reflects the...
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    the Catholic Church in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Nagasaki in southern Japan. Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathedral of St....
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    Takashi Nagai (category People from Nagasaki)
    specializing in radiology, an author, and a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. His subsequent life of prayer and service earned him the affectionate...
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    Society arrived in Japan in 1858, and were stationed in the three ports of Nagasaki, Yokohama and Hakodate. On 1 May 1846, Vicariate Apostolic of Japan was...
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