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Nagasaki (city)(Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan)

長崎市

Last modified: 2014-06-21 by zoltán horváth
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image by Kazutaka Nishiura, 22 October 2009


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City Flag

The city emblem was adopted in May 1900 but there is no flag law. The white flag is charged with red city emblem in the center. The flag proportion are 2:3. The city emblem is a stylized kanji NAGA 長 and also a star-shaped folded paper crane which represents Nagasaki called as a port of cranes. Inside are five kanji 市 (city) which symbolizes that Nagasaki is one of five open ports appointed in the late Tokugawa period.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 22 October 2009