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NAGASAKI

LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
Jul 9, 2018
'Hidden Christian' sites added to World Heritage list
UNESCO has decided to add 12 sites in southwestern Japan linked to the history of the country's persecuted Christians to the World Heritage list.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 2, 2018
Fantasy island: Collaborative multimedia project in Nagasaki seeks to augment the natural world
A young girl's voice rings through the forest, drawing me further into the darkness. "Koko ni kite," the voice calls again in a whisper from the right, using a Japanese phrase that means "come this way."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 19, 2018
Through the lens: Japanese photographers explore nuclear narratives
Whether it's the work of Robert Capa in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) or Richard Drew's iconic "Falling Man" picture of a man free-falling from the World Trade Center in 2001, photography has provided us with the images that we've used to visualize every disaster of the 20th century and beyond. But...
SOCCER / J. League
May 19, 2018
F. Marinos battle past V-Varen
Yokohama F. Marinos hit V-Varen Nagasaki with a second-half blitz to head into the J. League's World Cup shutdown on a high with a 5-2 win on Saturday.
JAPAN
Apr 28, 2018
A-bomb survivors praise denuclearization agreement at inter-Korean summit
JIJI — Survivors of the August 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki welcomed the denuclearization accord reached at Friday's rare summit between North and South Korea.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Mar 27, 2018
Tsushima Island was key conduit of Japan's Edo Period trade with Korea
Japan's historic relationship with the Korean Peninsula has often been complicated by mutual misunderstanding and distrust, if not outright hostility. But on Tsushima, a Japanese island off the coast of the peninsula, efforts are being made to celebrate long-ago diplomatic missions with Korea that took...
LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
Mar 12, 2018
Huis Ten Bosch debuts aquatic pod hotel
Huis Ten Bosch in Nagasaki Prefecture has introduced its new traveling pod hotel room, designed to float at sea, to the media.

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Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
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