Battleship Island Gallery

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    The Mitsubishi corporation built apartments like these for thousands of miners and their families.
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    By the 1950s, the island was the most densely populated place on the planet.
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    Hashima Elementary and Junior High School was one of the schools built by Mitsubishi for the children of miners.
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    The view from the boat that carries tourists from Nagasaki to the island.
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    The former hospital that served the island's approximately 5,000 inhabitants.
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    The island was evacuated in 1974, when the coal ran out, leaving behind a ghost town.
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    Graffiti left behind on city walls.
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    One of Hall's friends attended this school growing up and accompanied her on the shoot.
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    Because of crumbling buildings, visitors to Battleship Island are only allowed on specially built walkways.
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    In 2015 UNESCO designated Battleship Island a world heritage site, along with 22 other locations that played significant roles in the Japanese Industrial Revolution.
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    The island was nicknamed "Midori nashi Shima"—the island without green. With the island now deserted, nature has returned.
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    The island's coal mines reached almost 2,000 feet under the earth.
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    Battleship Island featured in the 2012 James Bond movie *Skyfall*, although most scenes were filmed in a studio.
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    In the 1930s and 40s, thousands of Koreans were forced to perform slave labor in the mines.
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