Explore the abandoned Hashima Island, Japan—also known as Battleship Island—through stunning drone footage. Once a thriving coal mining hub, this eerie ghost town now stands frozen in time, its ...

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 ...

On the left is a replica of a torture box with nails in which an inmate was placed and shaken to inflict pain. On the right ...

On an island off the coast of Nagasaki, ruins that seem on the verge of collapse stand clustered behind a high seawall.

One of the sites includes Hashima Island, where Koreans were forcibly taken for labour to produce war supplies for the Japanese Imperial Army. The Unesco World Heritage Committee (WHC) recommended ...

The Hashima Coal Mine ... Seoul again raised the issue when Japan in February nominated ancient gold and silver mines on the island of Sado in Niigata Prefecture for inclusion in the World ...

One of the sites includes Hashima Island, where Koreans were forcibly taken for labor to produce war supplies for the Japanese Imperial Army. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee (WHC) recommended ...

The tiny island of Yonaguni on Japan’s western frontier is too small for even a chain convenience store. But its wooded ...

security tensions are growing in Japan, especially in the Nansei Islands, the southwestern chain that includes Okinawa. The seriousness of the situation can be understood from the joint statement ...