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  Nagasaki: Japanese Castle-Turned-Hotel Provides Lordly Luxury

  HIRADO, Nagasaki — Hirado Castle in Hirado, Nagasaki Prefecture, is attracting tourists in its new l...

  June 17, 2023

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  Nagasaki: Gibbon’s Father Identified 2 Years after Mysterious Birth

  SASEBO, Nagasaki — Two years after a white-handed gibbon gave birth unexpectedly to an offspring whi...

  February 18, 2023

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  Nagasaki: Fate of Iconic Tunnel Up in Air

  NAGASAKI — The future of an iconic Nagasaki shopping center that also acts as a tunnel for tramcars ...

  February 13, 2023

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  Rites of ‘Forbidden Religion’ to be Preserved, Passed Down on Video

  NAGASAKI — Descendants of “hidden Christians” are among those moving ahead with a plan to make a vid...

  January 28, 2023

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  Nagasaki: Unique Kamome products going fast

  NAGASAKI — Products associated with a new Shinkansen bullet train, the Kamome, have enjoyed brisk sa...

  November 12, 2022

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  Nagasaki: ‘Foxes’ impress crowd with acrobatic feats

  NAGASAKI — Performers wearing white costumes with fox masks scaled 10-meter-high bamboo ladders in a...

  November 6, 2022

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  Nagasaki: Invaders’ anchor salvaged centuries after sinking

  MATSUURA, Nagasaki — A 13th-century anchor has been recovered from the seabed off the coast of north...

  October 22, 2022

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  Nagasaki: Fish-shaped bus shelters now Instagram hot spots

  SAIKAI, Nagasaki — Fish-shaped bus shelters have begun making waves as cute Instagram-worthy spots o...

  October 8, 2022

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  Newest Shinkansen bullet train launches in western Kyushu

  The 66-kilometer long Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen line opened for service on Friday. The new train, chri...

  September 23, 2022

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  Nagasaki: Replica of bombed cross connects Japan, U.S.

  NAGASAKI — Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki preserves a cross that was exposed to the atomic bombing of...

  September 17, 2022

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  Nagasaki: Film remembers U.S. POWs sacrificed for dam

  SASEBO, Nagasaki — A high school student has made a documentary about the history of a local dam, ho...

  September 3, 2022

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  Nagasaki: Tax system lets railway fan become stationmaster

  SHIMABARA, Nagasaki — A 48-year-old man from Tokyo was appointed as the stationmaster of Shimabara R...

  July 16, 2022

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  Nagasaki: Huis Ten Bosch marks 30th anniversary

  SASEBO, Nagasaki — A resort facility that has become identified with Kyushu celebrated 30 years sinc...

  April 9, 2022

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  Nagasaki students pass on A-bomb victim’s story, wish to abolish nuclear weapons

  NAGASAKI — For decades after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Nobuko Oka kept silent, traumatized by ...

  January 22, 2022

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  Nagasaki: Softshell turtles might be falling from the sky?

  ISAHAYA, Nagasaki — While driving in an urban area four years ago, a woman in her 50s ran over a sof...

  December 25, 2021

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