Battleship Island
Hashima – or Battleship Island – lying just outside the bay of Nagasaki was, for almost 90 years, a bustling coal mining community. The entire place was owned by the Mitsubishi company, who used every scrap of land to house employees, offices and mining facilities in a concrete fortress in the middle of the sea. ...
Time to Gamble… YOUR LIFE
Today we felt like a break from all the museums and the history and the real world, so we decided to duck into the cinema. As there will be on screens around the world, American movies dominated the bill here in Nagasaki, but we didn’t fancy any of that, so we opted for a Japanese ...