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

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

A Japanese island once packed with wealthy residents was abandoned over a century ago - and has since become a magnet for ...

Hashima Island, Japan, was once a bustling hive of activity - but its sordid past has rendered it uninhabitable.

or Battleship Island) hosted a small city with residences, a school, hospital and religious shrines. By the mid-'70s, the Japanese mined all the coal and the island was swiftly abandoned and left ...