What a beauty!

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier Grand Aniva, as good as fresh from the Nagasaki Mitsubishi shipyards. Christened in October, and destined for the Sakhalin-II project on a 20 year contract, transporting LNG from the Prigorodnoye terminal near Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, to Japan, South Korea and Baja California. Length: 288m DWT: 74,400 tonnes Speed: 19.5 knots Capacity 145,000 cubic metres Complement: 40

Vertical City

November 18th 2007
Treated to another fine day in Nagasaki with scattered clouds across the blue sky I considered how to spend my last day in town. Cramming four locations into one week's worth of travel isn't exactly ideal in terms of enjoying a place to its full potential, but I have always been a fan of scouting around multiple locations, and I'd rather return for a longer stay once I know the place would appeal ... read more

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In 1603, a Tokugawa shogunate (military dictatorship) ushered in a long period of isolation from foreign influence in order to secure its power. For 250 years this policy enabled Japan to enjoy stability and a flowering of its indigenous culture. Fol... ... read more

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