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1945, “the gun type bomb was ready at Tinian on 31 July awaiting for first favorable weather.” However, it wasn’t until August 6th that the first atomic bomb would be dropped. There were several target cities listed such as Kyoto, Hiroshima, Yokohama, Kokura and Niigata. The recommendations for where the bombs should be dropped came from discussions with the Scientific Panel on June 1, 1945, where the Intern Committee…

The final list, presented at a meeting of the Target Committee at Los Alamos on May 10, 1945. The list of potential targets consisted of Kyoto, Hiroshima, Yokohama, Kokura Arsenal and Niigata. Once the target list was finalised, the United States Air Force agreed to preserve these locations during their usual bombing raids, so that maximum damage could be inflicted when the atomic bombs were used. The Target…

Story’s production – focusing on the Japanese actress Setsuko Hara, her transforming star persona in regards to the ‘Noriko trilogy’ that created a national icon. SLIDE TWO - SETSUKO HARA- WHO/WHAT/WHEN Born Masae Aida, Setsuko Hara was born in Yokohama, Japan in 1920. She grew up with eight other siblings, five sisters and three brothers. Hara’s eldest sister was married to Film Director Hisatora Humagai, who encouraged Hara to find work at Nikkatso Studios, which she did and at the age of…

was still engaged to Leonor Rivera. V. O Sei-San A. Background Life Her family originally came from Chiba, nearby Narita Airport downtown Tokyo. Her father was a samurai who turned out to be a businessman and owned a trading store in Yokohama. Her older brother died during a revolt. The death of her brother made her sad, so they adopted an orphan, named Yoshi. She married a British man named Alfred Charlton at 1897 after Rizal’s death. Charlton died on November 2, 1915. Her home…

Bald Eagle Times #58 Music in WWII To the faithful readers of the Bald Eagles Times: In contrast to the other recently published articles, this is not your typical war story. In fact, it is not even directly related to the war. It is actually a story of the evolution of music leading up to and even throughout the war. Music, it is safe to say, is what kept the nation together. It gave us a fallback which we could all enjoy, regardless of our situation in life, race, or economical status. In…

Within the first few decades of the 20th century, the science of physics was completely reformed with new understandings of the nature of atoms. In 1898 France, Paris, Pierre and his wife Marie Curie discovered a new substance within an ore of Uranium that they named radium that emitted large amounts of (as we now call) radioactivity. Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy Identified that atoms can break down and turn into different elements. For example if a block of uranium were left alone for…

Organ donation is a very big issue that affects thousands of people worldwide. So many people are waiting for organ transplants, but a large portion of them die because of a major shortage. There are a lot of doctors and scientists are working to find a solution to this growing problem. There are many solutions to this problem but most them are controversial and will be hard to put into place. Some of these solutions include: educating the public, installing the opt-out law, and biotechnology.…

Day labourers, London prostitutes, and Mexican migrants are communities that live on the margins of society. Their status and occupation labels them as outcasts as they are considered to be communities who are deviant from societal norms (Gill 1999:120; Day 1999:141; Gonzales and Chavez 2012:277) These individuals live their daily lives in the ‘here and now’, in other words, their temporal orientation is towards the present. According to Park et al., (2016:1-5) and Kwapinska (2009:433), temporal…

They are mostly located on the coast such as Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Sapporo, Kobe, Kyoto, etc. Nevertheless, Japan has a much higher urban population than Cambodia, which is 93.5% of total population (2015). The CIA World Factbook estimated Japan has a population of 126 million (2016), making Japan the 11th…

Therefore, it is required from the company that there is a well-balanced system between its expenses, revenues and pricing. The key aspect is to analyse and reduce cost of the exportation system, as it is planning to enlarge the activity between Japan and them. Labour cost- Labour cost may be its minor expense, as most of the operations are done through machinery. However, to think that cutting off the employee’s money in order to benefit more may result in inner complexity between colleagues.…