Nagasaki City

31% of regional banks in the red

Twenty-seven, or 31 percent, of 87 listed regional banks posted consolidated net losses in the first half of fiscal 2008, due to increases in bad loan write-offs and shrinking values of their bonds an...

Martin Campbell Will Direct Nagasaki Deadline

Alcon Entertainment has set Martin Campbell to direct Nagasaki Deadline, an action thriller with Lightstorm Entertainment and 8:38 Prods. According to Variety, Alcon execs Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson will produce with...

Nagasaki Deadline

Release Date: TBA Studio: Lightstorm Entertainment Director: Martin Campbell Screenwriter: William Broyles Jr. Starring: Not Available Genre: Action, Thriller MPAA Rating: Not Available Official Website: Not Available Review:...

Directors ready for busy 2009

Front Page: Greg Mottola, Martin Campbell set new projects -- Despite shaky economic conditions and a possible SAG strike, the majors are ramping up for a busy 2009 in pic production. And there is no shortage of helmers ready...

National › Court grants S Korean woman A-bomb health passbook

Tuesday 11th November, 04:13 AM JST NAGASAKI — The Nagasaki District Court on Monday ordered the state and the Nagasaki prefectural government to give a South Korean woman an atomic-bomb sufferer’s health passbook and...

Business › Tokyo firm sells frozen veggies mixed with Chinese-grown as domestic

Monday 10th November, 06:37 PM JST TOKYO — A Tokyo-based food processing company said Monday that it mixed Chinese-grown vegetables with domestic ones to produce frozen vegetables and sold the products to food sellers as purely...

An Apology for Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

by Gary Groman aka The Ole Seagull published: Nov 9, 2008 The republication of this evolving tribute is respectfully dedicated to America’s veterans and active duty military with thanks and gratitude for their service and...

The checkered history of automation

"If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker” – attributed to Albert Einstein after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One law of science that has forever remained unchanged is the law of unintended consequences....

Home of the slave, land of the sleaze

My name is truth; but you may know me as justice, honour or even common sense. @poetry = I don’t know your individual names — there are just too many of you to remember. @poetry = You didn’t listen when I told you they had...

Nov 17, 2008: Physics for Future Presidents: The Nuclear Reaction at Atlas Cafe

As we head into a new presidency, much of the debate has been centered on one word: Nuclear. Nuclear terrorism, nuclear power, nuclear proliferation, the mispronunciation of the word nuclear...all have been fervently discussed....

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