[nah-guh-sah-kee, nag-uh-sak-ee; Japn. nah-gah-sah-kee] 
| a seaport on W Kyushu, in SW Japan: second military use of the atomic bomb August 9, 1945. 446,000. |
| Na·ga·sa·ki (nä'gə-sä'kē, nāg'ə-sāk'ē) A city of western Kyushu, Japan, on Nagasaki Bay, an inlet of the East China Sea. The first Japanese port to be opened to foreign trade in the 16th century, Nagasaki was devastated by the second atomic bomb used in World War II (August 9, 1945). Population: 452,000. |
City in southern Japan; one of Japan's leading ports and shipbuilding centers.
Note: The first Japanese port to welcome Western traders in the sixteenth century, it was the only Japanese port open to the West from 1641 to 1858.
Note: Nagasaki became the second populated area to be devastated by an atomic bomb, on August 9, 1945. (See also Hiroshima.)
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