When it comes to the city of Nagasaki, Japan, many people only know about it as having been bombed by the American atomic bomb. In fact, Nagasaki is quite a unique city in Japan. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, Nagasaki was the largest commercial port for overseas Chinese in Japan, and the existing "Tang Four Temples" (Chongfu Temple, Fuji Temple, Shengfu Temple, and Xingfu Temple) were all built by overseas Chinese. City customs such as dragon dance, dragon boat racing, water lanterns, etc., are all customs left by the Chinese.
During the period of the shogunate, it was the only window of communication between Japan and the West, and it was also the only port allowed to conduct exchanges with China. Nagasaki was reopened after the Black Ship Knock, which contributed greatly to the modernization of Japanese industry.
Geographically, it is located at the southwest tip of Japan's Kyushu Island, the closest port city between Japan and China, and only more than 800 kilometers away from Shanghai. After the Meiji Restoration in Japan, the shipping industry developed rapidly, and Nagasaki gave rise to a strong manufacturing industry, especially the shipbuilding industry, which was the birthplace of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
In 1884, the Nagasaki Shipyard was transferred to Mitsubishi Kaisha and became Japan's leading private shipyard. During World War II, Nagasaki became the shipbuilding base of the Japanese Navy, and the Kawanan Shipyard had a 100,000-ton giant slipway, which produced countless ** to support the war of aggression. It was from here that the famous giant battleships "Musashi" and "Yamato" were launched.
On August 9, 1945, after Hiroshima, the United States dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing 200,000 people at the time740,000 people and 7 wounded50,000 people, 1 house destroyed40,000 buildings, and the city was basically destroyed. After the war, the city was rebuilt, and the shipbuilding industry re-emerged, becoming the city's pillar industry.
To this day, it is still the most powerful shipbuilding base in Japan, mainly providing large surface ships for the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force, and has successively built the Taitokaze class, the flag wind class, the Haruna class, the Asagiri class, the Kongo class, the Takanami class, etc., and it is still more than one-third of the ships of the Self-Defense Force, far ahead of other shipyards.
The Nagasaki Shipyard is located on an island south of Nagasaki City, commonly known as "Funajima", written as "Kayaki Island", and was originally the site of the Kawanan Shipyard. In the early '60s, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries carried out a massive land reclamation to connect the island to the mainland, building factories on it, and at one time it was the largest shipyard in the world until it was later surpassed by the larger South Korean Daewoo shipyard.
The whole shipyard covers an area of 2.4 million square meters, has a total tonnage of 1.2 million tons of slipway, and builds 1 10,000-ton ship in more than 20 days at the earliest; It can be completed, and it only takes 4 months to build a 50,000-ton oil tanker, and the efficiency is much higher than that of European and American countries.
According to the data given by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the annual production capacity of the Nagasaki shipyard is: 1.9 million gross tons for new ships and 5.5 million gross tons for ship repair. In wartime, this production capacity can be further expanded. It is possible to produce almost all types of ships except aircraft carriers, which also shows the war potential of Japan.
As a city heavily influenced by Chinese and Dutch cultures, Nagasaki is also home to many places of interest, and tourism has become one of Nagasaki's pillar industries. Nagasaki has a "Shinchi Chinatown", which is also a very famous place in the area, and along with Yokohama Chinatown and Kobe Nankinmachi, it is known as one of the three major Chinatowns in Japan, and most of the Chinese restaurants and grocery stores selling Chinese goods are located in Shinchi Chinatown.
Every year, from the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Nagasaki holds a grand lantern festival that fills the streets with colorful lanterns, and the entire city is filled with Chinese flair. Originally, the Lantern Festival was a festival for overseas Chinese living in Nagasaki, but since 1994, the city has become a festival for Nagasaki City as a whole, feeling that it is beneficial to the local economy.
Because it is the only one, Nagasaki is visited by a large number of tourists every year, and there are millions of tourists, which is more than the current population of Nagasaki. Many shops are counting on the business of the Lantern Festival in the past ten days.
Compared with the seventies and eighties of the last century, the population of Nagasaki has dropped by one-tenth in these years, and now it has a permanent population of about 400,000 and a total GDP of about 15 billion US dollars, which is about the level of one of the top 100 counties in China. It is at the midstream level in the ranking of the top 100 counties in my country!