Hiroshima

Key point: It did nothing to save Okinawa from the Allies. In early 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy made a difficult decision: it would sacrifice the largest, most powerful battleships ever built to protect Okinawa, the gateway to Japans Home Islands. The d…

Mazda makes plenty of very mainstream cars; it's a small company by automotive standards, but one that competes hard for volume nevertheless. But Mazda is also a brand that has a well-deserved reputation for going its own way in so many different ways, from…

Westerners are aware that the Americans fire-bombed the city of Dresden in Germany at the end of the Second World War, but most of the truth was suppressed as soon as it happened. Dresden was Eastern Germanys cultural centre, a city filled with museums and hi…

You did it! Another week down! We're putting up a post very much like this one every Friday, to celebrate the fact that the week is done. Down with labor-for-money! Up with leisure-for-free! We think of this …

The seven Catholic peace activists who were convicted on October 24 for their symbolic protest against nuclear weapons at the Kings Bay Naval Base are now facing a two-to-three-month wait to hear their prison sentences. They could face more than 20 years in p…

Tokyo, Japan, Oct 30, 2019 / 01:02 pm (CNA).- Pope Francis three-day visit to Japan in November will include a meeting with people affected by the countrys triple disaster, when a major earthquake and subsequent tsunami on March 11, 2011 triggered a meltdown …

During his campaign for president, Donald Trump said that he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody without losing voters. Now, in a case before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals (and probably when appealed to the US Supreme Court), t…

The seven Catholic peace activists who were convicted on October 24 for their symbolic protest against nuclear weapons at the Kings Bay Naval Base are now facing a two-to-three-month wait to hear their prison sentences. They could face more than 20 years in p…

Photograph Source: A Trident II missile fires its first stage after an underwater launch – Public Domain On October 24, following a three-day trial in Brunswick, GA, seven Catholic Workers who acted to disarm a nuclear submarine base were convicted on three …

At 81, Nobuhiko Obayashi has terminal lung cancer, but his confrontation with death began so long ago it has characterized his decades of filmmaking. Obayashi has stayed true to himself through more than 40 movies and thousands of TV shows, commercials and o…