Hashima Island, located in Japan's Nagasaki Prefecture ... Despite the controversy, UNESCO accorded it World Heritage status, though this historical wound continues to strain South Korea-Japan ...

Hashima, or "Battleship Island," was a thriving coal mining site until 1974, now an eerie, tourable, abandoned metropolis with history. Bannerman Castle on Pollepel Island, once an arms storage ...

UNESCO called on Japan to remove areas that were largely developed during the Meiji Era (1868-1912) and onward from the proposed Sado Island Gold ... which include the Hashima Coal Mine on Hashima ...

Japan’s national broadcaster, NHK, is facing renewed criticism for offering what observers called a “half apology” after admitting it had used fabricated footage in a documentary cited to ...

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has taken exception to a Japanese exhibit on the Hashima Coal Mine on a tiny island off the ... rule of the peninsula is a historical fact that the Japanese ...