Nagasaki was built in 1869. During the Edo period in Japan (A.D. 1603 ~ 1867), it was directly under the shogunate government and was the territory of the governors of Omura, Hirado and Shimahara. Since ancient times, it has been Japan's gateway to the outside world, with frequent contacts with China, the Netherlands, Portugal and other countries. As early as the Sui and Tang Dynasties in China, many Japanese envoys went to the Sui and Tang Dynasties to study, and monks set sail from Nagasaki for China. During the Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties, a large number of businessmen from Fujian, Zhejiang and other coastal provinces went to Japan to do business. According to historical records, there are about 10 thousand people at most. They established Tang towns in Hirado, Fujiang and other places in Nagasaki, which became the place where China people concentrated. Subsequently, Chinese and Western cultures were introduced into Japan through Nagasaki, especially China culture, which had a far-reaching impact on Japan. Some customs, food culture and festivals of Nagasaki people originated from China.
In the past, Nagasaki was famous as a trading port of Japan. Nagasaki Port opened on 1570, and began to trade with Portuguese and China merchant ships every other year, and began to build towns. Starting from 16 16, the edo government began to restrict ships from Europe to trade only in Hirado and Nagasaki; Since 1635, trade has been restricted to Nagasaki Port, and an island has been built to restrict Portuguese people from living. 164 1 the Dutch pavilion was also moved to the island, and the edo government's measures to lock up the country have been completed. In the next two hundred years, Nagasaki became the only international trade port in Japan.
1636 Portuguese were forbidden to trade with Japan, so only China and Dutch merchant ships were allowed to trade in Nagasaki. As more and more merchant ships came from China, there were as many as 194 ships in China in 1688, so a Tang family was built in Nagasaki for China people to live in.
It was not until 1803 that ships from the United States, Russia, Britain and other countries entered Nagasaki to ask for trade.
At the end of World War II,1August 9, 945, American bombers dropped atomic bombs here, making Nagasaki the second city bombed by atomic bombs in the world, which not only severely damaged the urban area, but also caused more than 70,000 deaths. The bombing also forced Japan to surrender unconditionally to the allied forces, ending the war. 1955 In August, Nagasaki built a peace memorial statue to commemorate this event.
On the evening of April 17, 2007, Ichiro Ito, then the mayor, was shot and wounded from the rear while giving a speech in front of the campaign office. He died the next morning after being taken to the hospital. A few days later, in the mayoral election on April 22, many people still voted for Ichiro Ito, resulting in a large number of invalid votes; In the end, another candidate, Tanaka Fujiu, was elected.