Matsuura

Matsuura is a metropolis positioned in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. Matsuura City is bordered on three facets by using mountains. Matsuura Bay, which results in the Genkai Sea, makes up the fourth aspect. As of April 1, 2017, the town has an expected population of 23,566 and a populace density of 180 persons according to km². The overall vicinity is 130.37 km² Mention of a "Matsura County" seems in written records from the Heian duration, and this place become the home of the Matsura extended family, a local warrior extended family.

Takashima, inside the borders of the present day town, is the vicinity wherein the Mongol invasions of Japan, floundered because of the winds of typhoons in 1274 and 1281, giving upward push to the legend of the kamikaze. In the Edo length, the location became in large part underneath the manipulate of the Hirado Domain. The discovery of coal seams within the early Meiji length led to the speedy monetary development of the place within the past due 19th and early 20th centuries; however, the coal mines closed in the 1960s.