Ōmura (Nagasaki)

Ōmura-shi 大村 市
Geographical location in Japan
Region :	Kyushu
Prefecture :	Nagasaki
Coordinates :	32 ° 54 '  N , 129 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 32 ° 54 '0 "  N , 129 ° 57' 29"  E
Basic data
Surface:	126.46 km²
Residents :	95,062 (October 1, 2019)
Population density :	752 inhabitants per km²
Community key :	42205-3
Symbols
Flag / coat of arms:
Tree :	Quercus gilva
Flower :	Prunus lannesiana cv. Mirabilis
town hall
Address :	Omura City Hall 1 - 25 Kushima Omura -shi Nagasaki  856-8686
Website URL:	http://www.city.omura.nagasaki.jp/
Location of Ōmuras in Nagasaki Prefecture

Ōmura ( Japanese 大村 市 , -shi ; literally: large village ) is a city in Nagasaki Prefecture in Japan .

Every day at 6 p.m. the famous "castle" plays music in the city, comparable to church bells .

geography

The city is located in the Ōmura plain ( 大村 平野 , Ōmura-heiya ) on the Ōmura bay .

history

Like Nagasaki , Ōmura was one of the few places where the Jesuits and Portuguese could move freely in Japan .

The modern city was founded on February 11, 1942 . 33.1% of Ōmura was destroyed by the atomic bombing on Nagasaki .

Deportation prison

The Ōmura migrant detention center was set up in 1950 on parts of the site at the nearby Sasebo naval base . The accommodations were extremely dilapidated. Mainly refugees were held there, initially those who had been detained before the massacres on Cheju , organized by the troops of the US-backed dictator Syngman Rhee , then those from the Korean War, often for years without a court judgment. The Japanese government branded these refugees as " stowaways " ( mikkōsha - synonymous with "smugglers"). A nearby modern building opened in August 1996, now called Ōmura Immigration Reception Center , now performs the same function.

traffic

• Nagasaki airport
• Streets:
  • Nagasaki Highway
  • National roads 34, 444
• Train:
  • JR Ōmura Line

Town twinning

• Sintra , Portugal , since 1997

sons and daughters of the town

• Nagaoka Hantarō (1865–1950), physicist
• Masaki Okino (born 1996), football player
• Taira Shige (* 1993), soccer player

Neighboring cities and communities

• Nagasaki Prefecture
  • Isahaya
  • Higashisonogi
• Saga prefecture
  • Kashima
  • Ureshino
  • Tare

Web links

Commons : Ōmura (Nagasaki)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ "East Asian version of the Nazi concentration camps ... We should not be misled by the facts that it has no gas chambers ..." Hayashi Kōzō, cit. in: Morris-Suzuki, Tessa; Borderline Japan: foreigners and frontier controls in the post-war era; Cambridge 2010; ISBN 978-0-521-86460-2 , p. 167
2. ↑ Morris-Suzuki, Tessa; Borderline Japan: foreigners and frontier controls in the post-war era; Cambridge 2010; ISBN 978-0-521-86460-2 . Ch. 6