Yesterday was a day of trying to get our sea legs ….. quite a bit of motion in the ocean.

Today we have arrived into the port of Nagasaki. Our excursion that we had booked was cancelled due to inclement weather so we booked another. And guess what….. it is snowing pretty heavy!!!  The temperature is only 2C with wind (so even colder)… going to a high of 5C. Funny though that the sun is trying to come out. 

A bit of weirdness  with getting on bus on ”wrong” side. They drive on the left side of the road. 

Kaori is our guide

First time they’ve had snow in 10 years … unbelievable. 

Nagasaki … for years, there was international trade with Holland and China…. the only place in Japan that did. 

Christianity-30% … was banned for 200 years by the shogun. But ……they kept the religion…. Secretly. 

Nagasaki is on west side of Kyushu. Known for Ship building and tourism. 

In 1945 on Aug 9 @11:02am, the atomic bomb was dropped on it. Nagasaki was not intended target…. but was Kukura. It was too cloudy see the target and so chose Nagasaki. 47,000 were killed.  Many of those killed were Christians. Because the pilot couldn’t see the target there either, so hit what he could see. 

3000 students and teachers were killed. Nagasaki’s population at the time was 263,000. In Hiroshima, 140,000 were  killed of 350,000….cuz the area was flattered were more deaths proportionally.  

There was a chain of 1000 origami cranes build by 10 year old girl that developed & later died from leukaemia 

We stopped by the Peace Park as well as Ground Zero

Dr.Takashi Nagai, an X-ray doctor who had leukaemia because of using X-rays …….before the bomb, began to assist victims and launched studies of diseases caused by atomic bomb. He later became world peace activist.  

Drive on left side because samurai decided since most Japanese are right handed and the swords swing on left side of body. If they walked on the right, their swords would hit each other when passing.

Dutch trading post of Dejima island.  No women were allowed, only geishas (temporary girlfriend) … some babies seemed to have appeared. 

Dutch language used to be second official language….. not anymore. 

Wifi has been very difficult and so I am running behind in my posts. I am going to cross my fingers that this post gets sent.