Ex-residents visit "Gunkanjima"

Ex-residents visit "Gunkanjima"

NAGASAKI, Japan - Women chat in front of a residential building that used to be their home on Hashima, an island popularly known as "Gunkanjima" (Battleship Island), in Nagasaki City, southwestern Japan, on July 5, 2014. All residents moved out of the island 40 years ago after the coal mine was closed. (Kyodo)

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