| The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002. |
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| (nah-guh-SAH-kee, nag-uh-SAK-ee) City in southern Japan; one of Japan’s leading ports and shipbuilding centers. | 1 |
| ‡ 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. | 2 |
| ‡ Nagasaki became the second populated area to be devastated by an atomic bomb, on August 9, 1945. (See also Hiroshima.) | 3 |
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| | | The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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