New Delhi: Hashima Island, commonly called Gunkanjima, meaning Battleship Island, is one among 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Nagasaki itself.

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 ...

A government investigation committee, Thursday, unveiled a report on Japan’s forced mobilization of Koreans on Hashima Island during its colonial rule (1910-1945). The findings of the report is the ...

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 ...

Piyapan Choopetch's paranormal thriller sees five Thai filmmakers struggle with the after-effects of a location shoot on Hashima, the abandoned Japanese island which inspired the villain's den in ...

The island behind Javier Bardem's master hideaway in "Skyfall" does not have a happy story. If you've seen the 23rd Bond film, you remember the abandoned island housing Bardem's villain. Its remains ...