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Nagasaki City and Oita City have agreed to form a tourism alliance based on the theme of Ryoma Sakamoto. They will jointly produce television programs to promote tourism, and use in special events the Kanko-maru sailing ship that calls to mind Sakamoto’s trip from Kobe to Kyushu in 1864. In the first of those events, the ship will sail from Nagasaki to Oita later this month for a ceremony on October 1, during which the mayors of the two cities will sign the agreement cementing the alliance.