Old industrial facility

Old industrial facility

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 17, 2013, shows Hashima Island, known as "Battleship Island" that once flourished with its undersea coal mine, in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan. The Japanese government said the same day that it will seek to have the old industrial facilities, including the island, entered on UNESCO's list of World Heritage cultural sites in 2015.

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