Nicknamed Gunkanjima, or Battleship Island, because of its shape, Hashima island has an eerie, sinister look, perfect for, say, a villain’s lair in an action movie. The inspiration for villain Raoul ...

Hashima Island, nicknamed Gunkanjima, lent itself as a location for the 007 film Skyfall after producers were enticed by its sinister past. After being left to rot for 40 years, the dilapidated ...

This is the uninhabited Japanese island of Gunkanjima, alias Battleship Island, an abandoned place that has been registered as an UNESCO world heritage site since 2015. It now forms the subject of the ...

There’s a reason Gunkanjima is nicknamed Battleship Island. As you approach by tour boat, as we did a few weeks ago, the mysterious place, about nine miles off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan, resembles ...

The island lay abandoned for 35 years before Mitsubishi gave it back to the city of Nagasaki voluntarily in 2002. It has since been added to UNESCO’s list of world heritage sites on the basis that it ...

A TINY island in Japan that has been left abandoned for decades is now a cult tourist attraction, helped by it featuring as a lair for a James Bond villain. Hashima Island, commonly called Gunkanjima, ...

Japan's Hashima Island, commonly called Gunkanjima (or 'Battleship Island'), was populated from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility and housed thousands of workers in its heyday. When coal mining ...

AN EERIE island with a dark past of slavery is said to be the final resting place of up to 1,300 abused civilians and prisoners of war. Hashima Island, abandoned for 40 years and now deemed too ...

MOST movie sets are more glitz and glam than ghosts and ghouls – but this spooky island proved the perfect lair for a James Bond villain. Hashima Island, nicknamed Gunkanjima, lent itself as a ...

A TINY island in Japan that has been left abandoned for decades is now a cult tourist attraction, helped by it featuring as a lair for a James Bond villain. Hashima Island, commonly called Gunkanjima, ...