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Today, its most notable features are the abandoned and still mostly-intact concrete apartment buildings, the surrounding seawall, and its distinctive profile shape. The island has been administered as part of Nagasaki city since the merger with the former town of Takashima in 2005. Travel to Hashima was re-opened on 22 April 2009, after 35 ...
Mitsukejima. Mitsukejima (見附島) is an uninhabited island in Suzu, Ishikawa, Japan.Because of its shape, it is also known as Gunkanjima (軍艦島, "Battleship Island"), which is also the common name given to Hashima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture.
Hashima Island, Japan. Hashima Island was a Japanese mining town from 1887 to 1974. Once known for having the world's highest population density (in 1959 at 83,500 inhabitants per square kilometre or 216,000 inhabitants per square mile), the island was abandoned when the coal mines were closed down. [30]
The Hashima meteorite of circa 1910, which landed in Hashima City (see meteorite falls) Hashima District, Gifu (羽島郡), a nearby district in Gifu Prefecture, Japan; Hashima Island (端島) (nicknamed Gunkanjima, which translates to "Battleship Island"), an uninhabited island in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, formerly home to a coal mining facility
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U.S. President Donald Trump will meet Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for the first time on Friday as two allies wary of China's rise work to boost business and security ties while an ...
The largest by far is Suō-Ōshima, or Yashiro Island. List of islands ... Hashima Island (Yamaguchi), 端島 (山口県) (uninhabited) Hashira Island, ...
At a news conference on Tuesday, Jan. 21, the Honolulu Fire Department announced that authorities discovered human remains about 200 yards off Ke Iki Beach on the afternoon of Saturday, Jan. 18 ...