The Japanese island of Hashima was closed in 1974 and fell into disrepair, but since the 2000s, it has been reborn as a tourist destination. On an island off the coast of Nagasaki, ruins that seem ...

also known as Gunkanjima (Battleship Island), was once home to the Hashima Coal Mine, an underwater coal mine that contributed to Japan’s modernization. More than 5,000 people resided on the ...

Japan risked derailing ... site in Nagasaki Prefecture. The Hashima Coal Mine, located on a tiny speck of rock popularly known as “Battleship Island,” is part of the “Sites of the Meiji ...

One of the sites includes Hashima Island, where Koreans were forcibly taken for labor to produce war supplies for the ...