New Delhi: Hashima Island, commonly called Gunkanjima, meaning Battleship Island, is one among 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Nagasaki itself.

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 on ...

Egyptian entrepreneur and CEO of Egyptian Steel and Egyptian Cement Ahmed Abou Hashima has claimed that video clips recently circulated on social media were “fabricated,” adding that he has filed an ...

“I really don’t know how I managed to survive looking back now ... the hardships ... I can’t talk about it,” one of the Korean survivors of the infamous forced labor in the coal mines on Japan’s ...

The island behind Javier Bardem's master hideaway in "Skyfall" does not have a happy story. If you've seen the 23rd Bond film, you remember the abandoned island housing Bardem's villain. Its remains ...

Few people cared about the derelict Japanese island of Hashima until 2012, when its crumbling piers and abandoned apartment buildings were used as a backdrop for the secret island in the James Bond ...

A government investigation committee, Thursday, unveiled a report on Japan’s forced mobilization of Koreans on Hashima Island during its colonial rule (1910-1945). The findings of the report is the ...

15:49, Thu, Oct 31, 2024 Updated: 15:59, Thu, Oct 31, 2024 An island in the middle of the ocean is slowly being reclaimed by nature after being abandoned for more than 50 years. Hashima Island is a ...