Galveston (CLG 3) - Naval Cruise Book

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agasaki Nagasaki, with but 500,000 inhabitants, rates a modest 14th among Japa- nese cities, yet to many foreigners it symbolizes Japan to a greater extent than Tokyo. Yoritomo Minamato, founder of the Kamakura Shogunate, gave Nagasaki its name, but in his day the place was hardly more than a fishing village, and not until the -middle of the 16th century did it become an important gateway to foreign trade. Then, however, it quickly developed as the principal gateway and later the only gateway to world trade during the centuries-long period of J apan's seclusion, the period that Commodore Perry finally brought to an end in 1853. During the peak of Nagasaki's era of importance in foreign trade, before the Tokugawa Shogunate expelled the Spanish and Portuguese and restricted the Dutch traders to one small island called Deiima in Nagasaki Bay, there was extensive trade with China, the Philippines, Siam tThailandJ and, of immense cultural as' well as commercial significance, Portugal, Spain and Holland. The European traders introduced Western books, Western methods of business, Western science, medicine, chemistry, geology, and astronomy and even Western military science. In the field of religion St. Francis Xavier, the dedicated Spanish missionary who came here to preach Christianity, won an impressive measure of success in Kyushu. The fact that Christianity has endured in Kyushu even through World War II is a measure of its power. Nagasaki, stronghold of this faith, was Atom- bombed by Japan's Christian enemy and the Urakami Church in the Orient, seating 6,000 worshipers was reduced to ruins. TheX Oura Church suffered the same fate, though to a lesser degree. The Oura Church which was the oldest Christian church in Japan, was built by a French missionary in 1864. The flames of passion have largely died down and Christian churches, new ones, again flourish in Nagasaki and its neighborhood. The situation of this port, surrounded as it is by steep heights, is a rare beauty. At the harbor's edge, stretching for almost two miles is the huge Mitsubishi shipbuilding yard. A colossal peace statue 66 feet high stands in the recently developed Peace Park. The giant of peace holds his right arm straight up and his left stretched out horizontally, palm downward, in a soothing gesture of peace. He squats on his folded right leg in a manner that would strain an American limb but would be easy for any Japanese. The statue is extremely dramatic in delivering its message. V The home of Madame Butterfly, Glover Mansion , draws all who have in their system the least sense of romance. It was the f'rst structure in Japan of Western architecture, and internationally known through puccini's Madame Butterfly . Ground Zero!! Glover House, lapan's first taste of Western architecture

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