Nagasaki
Octopus beaks and snake soup
Driving across Japan’s Shikuko island, the food and travel writer Michael Booth pulls into a filling station to find, alongside…
If the bombing of Hiroshima was a moral obscenity, blame Emperor Hirohito
The 70th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has produced some predictable wailing and gnashing of teeth about the horrors of…
Why are we so silent over Hiroshima?
It’s 70 years since the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and yet there has been no rush to…
In the heart of darkness, the atom bomb
At the dark heart of this dark book is a startling fact: Joseph Conrad was employed to steam up the…
