Nagasaki
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Nagasaki is a city and the capital of Nagasaki Prefecture on the Japanese island of Kyushu. During the reign of Emperor Meiji, the city was one of the only few ports on the island where European ships could dock for trade after Japan had secluded itself for over two centuries.
History[edit | edit source]
In 1549, Nagasaki served as the entry point into Japan for the Jesuit delegation led by the Templar Francis Xavier. The excommunicated Spanish Assassin Alvaro Catarribera was also part of the delegation, which he had infiltrated after learning about the Templars' plans to use the Jesuit mission as a guise to spread their influence to Japan.[1]
In 1867, two British sailors were murdered in the city, resulting in increased diplomatic tensions between the United Kingdom and the Tokugawa shogunate. This incident came to be known as the Icarus affair and was one of the factors leading into the civil war fought between Mutsuhito's loyalists and the shogunate.[2]
On 9 August 1945, at 11:30 am, the United States dropped the atomic bomb "Fat Man" near the center of Nagasaki. causing approximately 70,000 deaths from the detonation alone.[3][4]
Appearances[edit | edit source]
- Assassin's Creed: Initiates (first mentioned) (mentioned in Database entry only)
- Assassin's Creed: Fragments
- Echoes of History (mentioned only)
- Assassin's Creed: Shadows (mentioned in Database entry only)
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