Explore the eerie ruins of Hashima Island, once a bustling coal mining hub. Discover its ghostly remains, intricate history, and how it became known as "Japan’s Ghost Island" in this captivating story ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family have visited Okinawa to pray for the war dead ahead of the 80th anniversary marking ...

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.

JAPAN NEWS. Above, the building for Hashima’s elementary and junior high school, constructed in 1958, lies on the northern part of the island.

The Coal That Fueled Japan’s Industrialization. Hashima is an island 18.5 kilometers southwest of Nagasaki’s city center. It is commonly called Gunkanjima (“Battleship Island”), a nickname ...

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 ...

Hashima Island is a chilling, deserted island just nine miles off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan. The island has been abandoned for over half a century and is now entirely reclaimed by nature.

This destination is overshadowed by its atomic bombing, but don’t be misled: Nagasaki is one of Japan’s most laid-back and enjoyable small cities.

US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel will sit out Nagasaki’s peace ceremony over Israel’s exclusion from the annual commemoration of the 1945 atomic bombing of the city, the embassy said. This ...

Similarly, in 2015, when Japan registered the Hashima Island, or the "Battleship Island" — another site linked to the forced labor of Koreans in Nagasaki Prefecture — as a Unesco World Heritage site, ...

Hashima Island, also known as Battleship Island, lies nine miles off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan, and has been uninhabited for over 50 years. It has a dark history of slavery and forced labour.

Hashima island lies nine miles off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan and has been reclaimed by nature, having been completely uninhabited for over 50 years now.