Hashima Island, nicknamed Gunkanjima, lent itself as a location for the 007 film Skyfall after producers were enticed by its sinister past. After being left to rot for 40 years, the dilapidated ...
Japans Hashima Island, or Gunkanjima, was once a bustling coal-mining community with more than 5,000 residents and one of the ...
Hashima was abandoned in 1974 and left to the elements. Storms, time, and decay have resulted in collapsed buildings that feel inhabited by the ghosts of the miners who used to live there. Here's a ...
This is the uninhabited Japanese island of Gunkanjima, alias Battleship Island, an abandoned place that has been registered as an UNESCO world heritage site since 2015. It now forms the subject of the ...
The island lay abandoned for 35 years before Mitsubishi gave it back to the city of Nagasaki voluntarily in 2002. It has since been added to UNESCO’s list of world heritage sites on the basis that it ...
A TINY island in Japan that has been left abandoned for decades is now a cult tourist attraction, helped by it featuring as a lair for a James Bond villain. Hashima Island, commonly called Gunkanjima, ...
Japan seeks Unesco recognition for Hashima island, known as Battleship island, but the bid makes no mention of its history as a site of slave labour The hardship is still etched on Tomoji Kobata’s ...