Urakami

Urakami (Japanese浦 上) was a town in the north of Nagasaki, named after the river. It was the exact ground zero of the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945. Here stood the Urakami Cathedral, the once largest cathedral in East Asia.

In Urakami lived the 15 Christians who in 1865 met the French Catholic priest Bernard Petitjean in the newly built church of Ōura and had to practice their faith in the underground until then. This event marks the revival of Christianity in Japan.

Paul Takashi Nagai got from the countless victims of the atomic bombing, which he helped the nickname "The Saint of Urakami ".

Credentials

• Atomic bombing of Nagasaki