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.

Battleship Island is just a nickname though – the island’s real name is Hashima Island, and it was a coal mining island. It was dubbed “Battleship Island” (Gunkanjima in Japanese) because a sea wall ...

Google’s Street View team have been to some pretty extraordinary places in their time; Death Valley, Botswana’s bush, the Calabrian mafia stronghold of San Luca – but rarely have they been anywhere as ...

Hashima Island, also known as "Battleship Island" due to its shape when seen from a distance, is an island off the coast of Nagasaki that's full of history. Nine miles from the coast, Hashima Island ...

THE world's most creepy island saw thousands starve to death and abandon their homes. Hashima sits just off the Japanese coast and is a tiny piece of land plagued by death and with a dark and twisted ...

A TINY island off the coast of Japan, shaped like a battleship and left abandoned for decades, was a living "hell" for its former residents. Thousands of Korean and Chinese prisoners were forced to ...

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 ...

Piyapan Choopetch's paranormal thriller sees five Thai filmmakers struggle with the after-effects of a location shoot on Hashima, the abandoned Japanese island which inspired the villain's den in ...

The island was used for the set of a famous movie THE world’s most creepy island saw thousands starve to death and abandon their homes. Hashima sits just off the Japanese coast and is a tiny piece of ...