JAPAN’S ISLAND HUB

One bomb devastated Nagasaki and ended World War Two. The Japanese city’s revival included a new airport built to a revolutionary design, as Sebastian Schmitz reports. Nagasaki has the distinction of being the world’s first offshore airport. All images author Builders of Nagasaki Airport used a novel solution to overcome the problems caused by the city’s surrounding landscape. Hills and the sea made it an unpromising location until a site was chosen in the waters of Ōmura Bay. The facility