The arrival of the Jesuit priest Francis Xavier (1506–52) on Hirado in the summer of 1550 marked a major historical turning point for the remote Kyūshū island as it developed into a center for ...
The horn blast from the incoming ferry echoes clearly through the top-floor hall of Hirado Castle. From the donjon's vantage point, my husband and I can clearly see the large passenger ship as it ...
Hirado is a rather large island off the coast of Kyushu, near Sasebo. Given its sparse population, a hybrid of economies emerges with the unusually high percentage of land ownership by the acre here.
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