Island of Ghosts: Hashima Island - Japan’s rotting metropolis
source: http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/bizzareweird/418-hashima-island
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Hashima, an island located in Nagasaki Bay, is better known as Warship Island (Gunkanshima). The island was inhabited until the end of the 19th century, when it was discovered that the ground below it held tons of coal. The island soon became a center of a major mining complex owned by Mitsubishi Corporation. As the complex expanded, rock brought out of the shafts was used to artificially expand the island. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/bizzareweird/418-hashima-island
