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HASHIMA ISLAND
In 1959, 5,000 people lived on Japanese 'battleship island'. Then it was abandoned almost overnight. The UNESCO site that inspired James Bond's Skyfall’s villain lairJapan’s Hashima Island, or Gunkanjima, was once a bustling coal-mining community with more than 5,000 residents and one of the world’s high...
A battleship-shaped Japanese island was more than 17 times as densely populated as Tokyo in 1959; now it’s a ghost town you can’t explore aloneOnce alive with the bustle of over 5,000 residents, Hashima Island was a coal-mining powerhouse, renowned for its remarkable density and un...
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