Nagasaki

Nagasaki is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture in Japan. It was formerly part of Nishisonogi District. It was a center of European influence in the 16th through 19th centuries. Nagasaki became a major Imperial Japanese Navy base during the First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War. During World War II, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made Nagasaki the second (and last, as of 2009) city in the world to be subject to nuclear warfare