In recent years, Nagasaki Prefecture’s Hashima Island, better known as Gunkanjima, or “Battleship Island,” has become one of the most internationally famous sites in Japan. A coal mining center for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hashima Island—nicknamed Gunkanjima or Battleship Island—was once a bustling coal mining hub before being abandoned to the sea. Today, it’s a UNESCO World Heritage site that can only be visited on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lying just off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan, the little island of Gunkanjima first seems like the fortified home of ghosts. Surrounded by walls and with blocks of buildings close to each other, ...