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Synopsis [edit] Time: 1904. Place: Nagasaki, Japan. Act 1 [edit] In 1904, a U.S. Naval officer named Pinkerton rents a house on a hill in Nagasaki, Japan, for him and his soon-to-be wife, "Butterfly". Her real name is Ciocio-san, (cio-cio, pronounced "cho...