Of 1,600 children at Yamazato National School, 1,300 died. "People said plants might not grow in Nagasaki for decades after the end of the war, but gradually, the city came back to life." ...

During Japan’s self-imposed period of isolation from the mid-1600s to the middle of the 1900s ... the world through its outpost on Dejima in Nagasaki. The study of ‘Dutch learning ...