po-nagasaki-2This postcard shows the the Post Office in Nagasaki, circa 1910.
A port city on the island of Kyushu, and a centre for ship building in Japan, Nagasaki first hosted Portuguese traders in the 1500s. Over the years, it became an international port and a ship building centre for the Japanese navy. Letters from sailors from around the world passed through its post office.
A bad day to post a letter would have been August 9, 1945, when Nagasaki was the site of the world’s second atomic bomb attack.