軍艦島探訪記 ある写真家の記録 "Visiting Battleship Island: A Photographers Chronicle"

Hashima Island, also known as Gunkanjima, is a small coal mining island located in Nagasaki, Japan. Its appearance, with numerous high-rise apartment buildings, resembles the battleship Tosa, which is why it is also called "Battleship Island." Gunkanjima thrived as a coal mining city with cutting-edge urban functions, including elementary and junior high schools, an underground department store, a movie theater, restaurants, a pachinko parlor, and a hospital. However, due to the national energy policy shift, the mine was closed in 1974, and all the islanders left the island. Today, its unique,...