Nagasaki prefecture/Definition

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(長崎県 Nagasaki-ken) area of Japan located on the island of Kyushu, once a gateway for foreign trade during the country's isolationist period, and whose capital was struck by an atomic bomb in 1945; population about 1,450,000.