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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once one of the most densely populated places on Earth, Hashima Island powered Japan’s industrial rise through coal mining ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nine miles off the Japanese coast near Nagasaki lies Hashima Island, known to be one of the world's spookiest locations. The history of the island is dark and haunting as hundreds of workers faced a ...

The Google Street View Trekker backpack is at it again, and this time it visited the abandoned Hashima Island, or more well-known as "Dead Island" or "Dead City" from the most recent James Bond film ...

Those looking for a snapshot of what Earth would look like if humans became extinct can look no further than this eerie abandoned island with a dark history. Lying nine miles off Japan's coast near ...

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 ...