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| settlement_type= City | image_skyline=Omura City Office Nagasaki 2008.jpg | image_flag= Flag of Omura, Nagasaki.png | image_map= Omura in Nagasaki Prefecture Ja.svg | lat_deg= 32 | lat_min= 54 | lat_sec= 0 | lon_deg= 129 | lon_min= 57 | lon_sec= 30 | region= Kyushu | prefecture= Nagasaki Prefecture | district= | mayor= Takashi Matsumoto (since April 1987) | area_km2= 126.34 | population= 93,921 | population_as_of= 2015 | density_km2= 710 | tree= Quercus gilva | flower= Omura sakura | bird= | city_hall_address= 1-25 Kushima, Omura-shi, Nagasaki-ken | city_hall_postal_code= 856-8686 | website= }} is a city located in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. As of April 1, 2015, the city has an estimated population of 93,921 and a population density of 710 persons per km². The total area is 126.33 km², and includes Nagasaki Airport. ==History== Ōmura is a castle town, and was the capital of Ōmura Domain, ruled by the local Ōmura clan for over 900 years in pre-Meiji Japan. It was the site of considerable foreign trade and missionary activity during the late Muromachi period, and the Catholic saint Marina de Omura hails from this city. Due to its proximity to the trading settlement at Dejima in Nagasaki, was one of the first areas of Japan to re-open to foreign contact after the end of the national seclusion policy after the Meiji Restoration. In the opera Madama Butterfly, set in nearby Nagasaki, the place name ''Omara'' in the line "ed alla damigella Butterfly del quartiere d'Omara Nagasaki" probably refers to Ōmura. From 1868-1945, Ōmura was host to numerous military facilities as part of the Sasebo Naval District, most notably that of a major air base for the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service. The former naval base was the location of the squalid〔"East Asian version of the Nazi concentration camps ... We should not be misled by the facts that it has no gas chambers ..." Hayashi Kōzō, cit. in: Morris-Suzuki, Tessa; ''Borderline Japan: foreigners and frontier controls in the post-war era;'' Cambridge 2010; ISBN 978-0-521-86460-2, p. 167〕 ''Ōmura Migrant Detention Center,'' where mainly Korean refugees—termed "stowaways" (''mikkōsha'' synonymous with "smuggler")—were held until deportation, frequently for several years. Since August 1996 the nearby ''Ōmura Immigration Reception Center'' in a modern building serves the same function.〔Morris-Suzuki, Tessa; ''Borderline Japan: foreigners and frontier controls in the post-war era;'' Cambridge 2010; ISBN 978-0-521-86460-2. Ch. 6〕 The modern city was founded on February 11, 1942. It was largely destroyed by American bombing on October 25, 1944. Its postwar recovery was assisted by the construction of Nagasaki airport offshore in Ōmura Bay, and by other public works projects. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ōmura, Nagasaki」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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