Once a thriving arm of Japan's industrial revolution, Hashima Island was once home to 5,000 residents - but it has been ...

Hashima Island in the Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, was once a thriving arm of the country's industrial revolution - but ...

A Japanese island once packed with wealthy residents was abandoned over a century ago - and has since become a magnet for ...

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

NAGASAKI—Hideo Kaji fondly recalls the harmony that helped to enable the most densely populated community in the world to survive and flourish. Thousands of people lived in tightly packed ...

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.

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.