Nagasaki
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- proper noun
- /nəˈɡɑːsəki/
- Her name was Iwakiri Hideko, and she was attending a women's junior college in Nagasaki.
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- bomb Nagasaki
- Nagasaki, Japan
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Watch on YouTubeSo she's a survivor of the Nagasaki bomb, right?
- So she's a survivor of the Nagasaki bomb, right?
- The film also doesn't show the victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- But I mean, this guy said, I know there's a lot of hand wringing in America about Nagasaki and Hiroshima, not in Asia.
- And that began with the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, the effects of nuclear weapons on buildings and people.
- Then gets shipped over to toward the mainland and gets knocked off his feet by the aftershock from the Nagasaki bomb drop.
- So atomic bombs, people think Hiroshima and Nagasaki, those were tiny.
- We have no Hiroshimas or Nagasaki's to serve as models, as concrete examples of what will happen.
- Like it's kind of comfortable that we live in the, you know, sadly in the post Hiroshima, Nagasaki world where like we've kind of come to this stable point.
Examples
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On August 9, an atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, killing 74,800 more people, according to Japanese officials.
Academic text (2005) -
A Japanese artist painted this scene of Portuguese traders arriving at Nagasaki around 1600, right?
Academic text (2003) -
One of us must go to Nagasaki and find him.
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What did she say about Nagasaki?
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In a month, I'll be gone to Nagasaki, and I'll never hear from them or write to them.
Fiction book (1991) -
Just like the Nagasaki I'd visited on a school trip.
Fiction book (2002) -
First stop in Nagasaki, basically like all of our cities, is Starbucks across the street.
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Some of my Nagasaki friends scurried over to my hotel to see me.
Fiction book (1996) -
It's estimated that the second bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki on August 9 claimed another 80,000 lives.
Academic text (2010) -
On August 9, an atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, killing 74,800 more people, according to Japanese officials.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Nagasaki comes from two Japanese parts: naga meaning 'long' and saki meaning 'cape' or 'peninsula'. So the city was named for a 'long' piece of land by the sea, which helps explain why it became an important port.