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In the meantime, Navarrese Jesuit missionary St. Francis Xavier arrived in Kagoshima, South Kyūshū, in 1549, and soon initiated a thorough campaign of evangelization throughout Japan, but left for China in 1551 and died soon afterwards. His followers who remained behind converted a number of daimyo. The most notable among them was Ōmura Sumitada, who derived great profit from his conversion to the "Kiri#an" religion through an accompanying deal to receive a portion of the trade from Portuguese ships. In 1569, Ōmura gave permit for the establishment of a port with the purpose of harboring Portuguese ships in Nagasaki, which was finally set in 1571, under the supervision of the Jesuit missionary Gaspar Vilela and Portuguese Captain-Major Tristão Vaz de Veiga, with Ōmura's personal assistance.[2]
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Foundation
After the British established Hong Kong as a colony in the aftermath of the First Opium War, local merchants felt the need for a bank to finance the growing trade between China and Europe (with traded products including opium).[2][3] They established the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Company Limited in Hong Kong (March 1865) and Shanghai (one month later).
The founder, a Scotsman named Thomas Sutherland wanted a bank operating on "sound Scottish banking principles." Still, the original location of the bank was considered crucial and the founders chose Wardley House in Hong Kong since the construction was based on some of the best feng shui in Colonial Hong Kong.[4] The bank initially leased its premises for HK$500 a month in 1864.
After raising a capital stock of HK$5 million, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Company Ltd. opened its doors on 3 March 1865. It opened a branch in Shanghai during April of that year, and started issuing locally-denominated banknotes in both the Crown Colony and Shanghai soon afterwards. The bank was incorporated in Hong Kong by special dispensation from the British Treasury in 1866, and under the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Ordinance 1866,[5] a new branch in Japan was also established. The bank handled the first public loan in China in 1874, thereafter issuing most public loans.
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HSBC opened its first Japan operations in Yokohama in 1866, followed by branches in other trading ports such as Osaka, Kobe and Nagasaki. It was heavily involved in the early development of Japan's current monetary system, and consulted with the government regarding fiscal policy, currency printing and related matters.
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Nagasaki Gets the Atomic Bomb Over a Honeymoon
You know the atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended World War II, but have you ever wondered why those particular cities had to get the A-Bomb treatment? It couldn't have been an easy decision, the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians hung in the balance.
So a lot of careful consideration must have gone into choosing which cities to bomb... right?
Originally posted by Dr Expired
reply to post by GringoViejo
Whilst humour is good, it smacks of inappropriateness on this subject matter?
Originally posted by spoor
Germany should have thought of that before they started the war.
Originally posted by dcmb1409
Nagasaki was a secondary choice and almost didn't happen as cloud cover obscured both sites with Nagasaki becoming clear close to the last minutes of the mission to release the weapon in a fuel demanded window.
The decision to drop the second bomb came after Japan showed a resolve to continue the war and estimated causalities could have topped over one million in civilian and military deaths if an invasion of the homeland took place according to military planners and historians.
It had nothing to do with religion other than the resolve of the Japanese people to defend their shores to the last citizen.
The horrors of the atomic aftermath would have paled to the bloody land invasion planned to happen. Russia had even reluctantly agreed to assist in stopping the Japanese in return for the materials supplied to them during their fight with Germany.
The World War II museum in Louisiana has a lot of information pertaining to the war.
Originally posted by Dr Expired
reply to post by GringoViejo
Some may have found Woddy Allen offensive enough considering the ethnicity of those responsible for inventing the device that incinerated and barbecued so many human beings.
I could link to an create an analogy, but awareness of suffering of others stops me.