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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 ...

Thousands of people lived in tightly packed accommodations on Hashima, the coal mining isle that is also called Gunkanjima, or Battleship Island, here. Kaji, 91, was born and raised on Hashima ...

CHIGASAKI, Kanagawa Prefecture--Suh Jung-woo was only 14 when he was taken to Hashima island off Nagasaki during World War II and made to work in a coal mine. “It was 37 to 38 degrees in the pit.

Originally, Hashima was a reef, with no vegetation. In 1890, it was developed into an artificial island to mine undersea coalfields by the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, founded by Iwasaki Yatarō.