Tsuruga (JP)

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Tsuruga (敦賀市 Tsuruga-shi) is a city in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. It is the largest city in Japan's Wakasa region.

An Imperial decree in July 1899 established Tsuruga as an open port for trading with the United States and the United Kingdom.

Tsuruga was incorporated as a city on April 1, 1937.

Tsuruga is known for its two nuclear power facilities - the Monju demonstration nuclear plant and the Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant.

Tsuruga was the only Japanese port opened to the Polish orphans in 1920, and to the Jewish refugees in 1940 thanks to Jan Zwartendijk, the Dutch Consul in Kaunas, who issued visa for Curaçao and Surinam, Mr. Chiune Sugihara, Vice-Consul for the Empire of Japan in Lithuania could issue transit visa for Japan. These historic events are detailed at the Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum. Jan Zwartendijk is honored in Israel, Lithuania and The Netherlands. In Japan his work is rather unknown so far.

Postmark Examples

Japan, 1908: Post card from Tsuruga to Eisleben, Germany with assorted kiku (chrysanthemum) series stamps.

Japan, 1908: Post card from Tsuruga to Eisleben, Germany - Front.