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

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

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

Hashima Island in the Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, was once a thriving arm of the country's industrial revolution - but beneath the veneer of high salaries and economic power, lurked a much darker ...

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 ...

NAGASAKI--Strong winds, heavy rain and the ravages of time have taken a toll on the nation’s oldest reinforced-concrete apartment building on Hashima island, a UNESCO World Heritage site ...

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.