Example sentences for: kagoshima

How can you use “kagoshima” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In response, the Americans, British, Dutch, and French combined forces to smash the Choshu fortified positions, and Britain retaliated for the assassination by practically leveling the town of Kagoshima in southern Kyushu.

  • Halfway back along Kyushu’s west coast, Kumamoto is an old castle town that was of considerable importance to the Tokugawa shoguns as a counterweight to the presence of the annoyingly independent Shimazu clan down in Kagoshima.

  • Chiran (80 minutes inland by bus from Kagoshima) is a peaceful, secluded 18th-century samurai village.

  • Kagoshima dominates the head of a deep indentation at the southern tip of Kyushu, and its harbor has played a prominent role in Japanese military history.

  • It was from Kagoshima that the last desperate sorties of World War II were begun to resist an imminent US invasion, including the kamikaze raids on American warships.


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