The origin of Japan’s modernization is here. Under the growing sense of crisis over a foreign menace, Nagasaki supported the introduction of Western countries technology, which started during the last years of Japan’s National isolation period. With “ Dejima ” as the only window to West during the period of National isolation. Nagasaki has contributed to Japan’s modernization by serving as a place to acquire knowledge from oversea. Nagasaki contributed for Shipbuilding and Coal Mining and 7 sites have been registered on the UNESCO World Heritage, Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution.     Glover House   Located on Minami-Yamate hill in Nagasaki-city, Glover Garden has nine Western style buildings including the Glover’s Residence built in 1863 by Japanese carpenter Koyama Hidenoshin. The  Glover Residence is Japan’s oldest wooden Western-style building.     Former Pattern Shop / Shipyard History Museum The Former Pattern Shop was built in 1898 to produce wooden patterns for castings and is the oldest factory building in the shipyard. It is a two-storied brick building with a timber roof truss. There is a U-shaped rail on the ceiling to transport materials. The building was refurbished to the Shipyard History Museum in 1985 and is open to the public.     Giant Cantilever Crane The Giant Cantilever Crane is the first electric-powered crane of its type in Japan, imported from …

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  Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining are a group of historic sites that played an important part in the industrialization of Japan in the Bakumatsu during National isolation period and Meiji periods, and are part of the industrial heritage of Japan. The UNESCO World Heritages consist of eight areas with thirty component sites located throughout Japan from Northern part Tohoku to Kyushu.   Kyushu has 5 areas with 16 sites as follows; ・Kitakyushu : 4 sites for Iron and Steel ・Miike (Omuta, Arao and Misumi)  : 3 sites for Coal Mining ・Saga : 1 site for Shipbuilding ・Nagasaki : 5 sites for Shipbuilding and Coal Mining ・Kagoshima : 3 sites for Iron and Steel     Kitakyushu   The four sites of Yawata Steel Works in Kitakyushu area have been inscribed as Iron and Steel Industry. The buildings of The Imperial Steel Works, Japan at Yawata Works NSSMC are the surviving components of Asia’s first successful integrated iron and steel works: the State-run Imperial Steel Works opened in 1901. It is located in the northernmost part of Fukuoka Prefecture, the north end of Kyushu, 8 km south of Hibiki-Nada Seashore close to the continent of China. Their present-day setting is still a working industrial landscape set in the southe-astern section of NIPPON STEEL Yawata Works which, for over a century, has consistently maintained …

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