Nagasaki is located northeast of Kyushu, in Nagasaki prefecture.
It extends along narrow Nagasaki Bay, and by the surrounding mountains,
the continent of Nagasaki is separated into various parts. In 1641 in the Edo Period, Japan closed all business with foreign countries, and this period of isolation lasted more than 200 years. However, there was an exception:
Nagasaki was considered "the only window" to attend to foreign country's people. The saddest and unforgettable event in Nagasaki is the atomic bomb, which destroyed the city after Hiroshima. In August 1945 the bomb that fell on the northern part of Nagasaki, turned Nagasaki into a place of 75,000 people's death. Today, this area and the epicenter has become a great Peace Park. The city has changed so much, and it is difficult to imagine that such a fatal tragedy could have happened. Every year on such a day a special ceremony is held to commemorate the victims. Nagasaki, the city that benefitted from the influence of foreign cultures, has overcome the tragedy of war and continues to exert its influence in pursuit of world peace.