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 ...

Nicknamed Gunkanjima, or Battleship Island, because of its shape, Hashima island has an eerie, sinister look, perfect for, say, a villain’s lair in an action movie. The inspiration for villain Raoul ...

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 ...

Japans Hashima Island, or Gunkanjima, was once a bustling coal-mining community with more than 5,000 residents and one 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 ...

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 ...

There’s a reason Gunkanjima is nicknamed Battleship Island. As you approach by tour boat, as we did a few weeks ago, the mysterious place, about nine miles off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan, resembles ...

MOST movie sets are more glitz and glam than ghosts and ghouls – but this spooky island proved the perfect lair for a James Bond villain. Hashima Island, nicknamed Gunkanjima, lent itself as a ...