The government has expressed deep regret over Japan not implementing follow-up measures after listing the latter's modern ...

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 ...

Japan has yet to make good on a promise made when Hashima Island, where Koreans were forcibly taken for labor during World War II, won the UNESCO World Heritage status in 2015.Japan's ...

Japan had promised earlier to take steps to remember the victims, including many Koreans. Read more at straitstimes.com.

“We all understood one another,” Kaji said. “That kind of thing was unique to Hashima.” But an energy revolution soon spread across Japan. And even the mining company, in 1966, installed ...

Japan expressed its intention to implement appropriate measures so that the memory of those who perished at the Hashima coal mine would not be forgotten. In 2020, the government opened the ...

Japanese consumers are defensive ... With Hirayama paving the way, Costco saw little risk in joining the Torius Group’s plan. A Costco in Hashima, Gifu Prefecture. Image: Renaik/Wikimedia CC BY-SA 4.0 ...

(Mainichi) NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- Bullet train services between Tokyo and Osaka were temporarily halted Friday after a fire broke out near a track in central Japan, according to JR Central. The fire ...

Just off the coast of Nagasaki is Hashima Island, also called “Battleship ... gives researchers and tourists a glimpse of the era of Japanese industrialization. In the U.S., one of the best ...