NAGASAKI

NAGASAKI, one of the six treaty ports of Japan, on the NW. of the island Kiushiu; has a beautiful and extensive harbour, within which lies the island of Deshima; manufactures "egg-shell" china, exports coal, tea, &c., and possesses an excellent dockyard; American and English missions are carried on.

During the World War II, it suffered atomic bombing. It is the second and last city in the world to suffer nuclear attack, the first being Hiroshima, also in Japan.