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Battleship Island in Japan

Photo taken on Aug. 14, 2023, shows the World Heritage-listed Hashima Island, better known as Battleship Island, off Nagasaki, southwestern Japan.

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Battleship Island in Japan

Photo taken on Aug. 14, 2023, shows the World Heritage-listed Hashima Island, better known as Battleship Island, off Nagasaki, southwestern Japan.

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Battleship Island in Japan

Photo taken on Aug. 15, 2023, shows the World Heritage-listed Hashima Island, better known as Battleship Island, off Nagasaki, southwestern Japan.

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Parent of two seeks court's permission to change registered sex

GIFU, Japan - A person (L) diagnosed with sexual identity disorder, who has fathered two children (R side), speaks at a news conference in Gifu on Dec. 24 as he filed a request with the Gifu Family Court the same day to change his registered sex to female. The 43-year-old resident of Hashima, Gifu, changed his registered name to Atsuko (a woman's name) Mizuno, after undergoing a sex-change operation abroad.

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Ex-resident visits "Gunkanjima"

NAGASAKI, Japan - A woman points to her former residence 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.

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Ex-resident sheds tear visiting "Gunkanjima"

NAGASAKI, Japan - A woman sheds a tear looking up at her former residence 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.

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Ex-resident visits home on "Gunkanjima"

NAGASAKI, Japan - A man (L) walks to his former residence on Hashima, a currently uninhabited island popularly known as "Gunkanjima" (Battleship Island), in Nagasaki City, southwestern Japan, with a Nagasaki city official on July 5, 2014. All residents moved out of the island 40 years ago after the coal mine was closed.

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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.

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"Gunkanjima" island of Nagasaki

FUKUOKA, Japan - Hashima, a deserted island popularly known as "Gunkanjima" (Battleship Island), in Nagasaki City, southwestern Japan, is seen in the photo taken in September 2013.

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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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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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Old industrial facility

TOKYO, Japan - A November 2008 file photo shows Hashima Island, known as "Battleship Island" that once flourished with its undersea coal mine, in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan. The Japanese government said on Sept. 17, 2013, 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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"Battleship Island" in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Photo shows the interior of an apartment room on Hashima Island in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 29, 2012. The island, nicknamed "Gunkanjima" (battleship island), was once prosperous but became uninhabited after its coal mines closed in 1974.

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"Battleship Island" in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Photo taken on Oct. 29, 2012, shows Hashima Shrine (back), the highest point on Hashima Island in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, and the shrine's name plate (front) fallen from the torii shrine gate. The island, nicknamed "Gunkanjima" (battleship island), was once prosperous but became uninhabited after its coal mines closed in 1974.

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"Battleship Island" in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Photo shows an apartment building on Hashima Island in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 29, 2012. The island, nicknamed "Gunkanjima" (battleship island), was once prosperous but became uninhabited after its coal mines closed in 1974.

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"Battleship Island" in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Photo shows Hashima Island in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 29, 2012. The island is nicknamed "Gunkanjima" (battleship island) due to the silhouette of its ruined structures and seawall. It was once prosperous but became uninhabited after its coal mines closed in 1974.

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"Battleship Island" in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Photo taken on Oct. 29, 2012, shows posts of a conveyor belt that used to deliver coal on Hashima Island in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan. The island, nicknamed "Gunkanjima" (battleship island), was once prosperous but became uninhabited after the coal mines closed in 1974.

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Card-free ATM

GIFU, Japan - A customer places her palm on the censor of an automated teller machine for identification at the Hashima city branch of Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank in Gifu Prefecture on Sept. 26, 2012. The regional bank based in the prefecture started the same day operating ATMs for cash withdrawals, deposits and balance inquiries that do not require plastic cards but instead identify account holders by scanning their hands.

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'Battleship' island opened to public for 1st time in 35 yrs

NAGASAKI, Japan - Toshiko Kuroda, who formerly lived on Hashima Island, points to the ruin of a condominium on the island off the southwestern Japan prefecture of Nagasaki on April 22. She visited the tiny uninhabited island, nicknamed Gunkanjima (battleship island), after the city of Nagasaki allowed people to make a one-day trip there for the first time in 35 years.

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'Battleship' island opened to public for 1st time in 35 yrs

NAGASAKI, Japan - Former islanders and sightseers walk around the now uninhabited Hashima Island off the southwestern Japan prefecture of Nagasaki on April 22. The city of Nagasaki allowed people to make a one-day trip to the tiny island, nicknamed Gunkanjima (battleship island), the same day for the first time in 35 years.

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'Battleship' island opened to public for 1st time in 35 yrs

NAGASAKI, Japan - About 70 sightseers and former residents visit the now uninhabited Hashima Island, nicknamed Gunkanjima (battleship island), off the southwestern Japan prefecture of Nagasaki on April 22. The city of Nagasaki allowed people to make a one-day trip to the tiny island for the first time in 35 years.

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Chinese ex-forced laborers survey ruins of Nagasaki coal mine

NAGASAKI, Japan - Li Qingyun (C), a 77-year-old former Chinese forced laborer, sails around the Hashima Island, southwest of Nagasaki, on July 27 to survey the ruins of a coal mine on the island. About 1,000 Chinese were forced to work in four coal mines in Nagasaki Prefecture, including one on Hashima Island, during World War II.

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Nagasaki group to research Chinese forced laborers

NAGASAKI, Japan - File photo taken July 17 shows Yasunori Takazane, professor at Nagasaki University, standing at the ruins of a coal mine on Hashima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture, where Chinese laborers were forced to work during World War II. A civic group headed by Takazane will visit China in August to interview some of those Chinese workers or their family members.

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Snowboarding: Kokomo Murase

Japanese snowboarder Kokomo Murase practices in the Gifu Prefecture city of Hashima, central Japan, on Nov. 25, 2021. About a month earlier, Murase won the season-opening World Cup women's big air event in Chur, Switzerland.

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Snowboarding: Kokomo Murase

Japanese snowboarder Kokomo Murase practices in the Gifu Prefecture city of Hashima, central Japan, on Nov. 25, 2021. About a month earlier, Murase won the season-opening World Cup women's big air event in Chur, Switzerland.

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Snowboarding: Kokomo Murase

Japanese snowboarder Kokomo Murase practices in the Gifu Prefecture city of Hashima, central Japan, on Nov. 25, 2021. About a month earlier, Murase won the season-opening World Cup women's big air event in Chur, Switzerland.

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Snowboarding: Kokomo Murase

Japanese snowboarder Kokomo Murase practices in the Gifu Prefecture city of Hashima, central Japan, on Nov. 25, 2021. About a month earlier, Murase won the season-opening World Cup women's big air event in Chur, Switzerland.

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Parent of two seeks court's permission to change registered sex

GIFU, Japan - A person (L) diagnosed with sexual identity disorder, who has fathered two children (R side), speaks at a news conference in Gifu on Dec. 24 as he filed a request with the Gifu Family Court the same day to change his registered sex to female. The 43-year-old resident of Hashima, Gifu, changed his registered name to Atsuko (a woman's name) Mizuno, after undergoing a sex-change operation abroad. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Battleship Island resident talks about wartime life

Hideshi Inoue, an 85-year-old former resident of the Hashima Coal Mine, known as "Battleship Island," in Nagasaki in April 2015, talks about air raids and other experiences in World War II. The coal mine was added in July to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tour participants take photos of Battleship Island in Japan

People on a tour to land on the Hashima Coal Mine, known as Battleship Island, take pictures on July 6, 2015. The island is one of the Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution that was granted UNESCO World Heritage status the same month. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Battleship Island" off Nagasaki, candidate for World Heritage site

Hashima Island off Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, known for its underground coal mining during the industrialization of Japan, is commonly called "Battleship Island" because of its shape as seen in this photo taken on April 25, 2015. It is one of the candidate sites for registration on a UNESCO World Heritage list as remnants of Japan's Meiji era (1868-1911) industrial revolution. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Man talks about childhood spent on 'Battleship Island' off Nagasaki

Azuma Ishikawa talks about his childhood spent on Hashima Island off Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on June 7, 2015. The island, commonly called "Battleship Island" because of its shape, is seen far in the distance at the center of this photo. It is one of the candidate sites for registration on a UNESCO World Heritage list as remnants of Japan's Meiji era (1868-1911) industrial revolution. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Architecture experts land on Gunkanjima for survey

About 240 experts on architecture from Japan and abroad land on Hashima, an island commonly called Gunkanjima (meaning Battleship Island) off the coast of Nagasaki, on June 1, 2015, to survey superannuated buildings there. A UNESCO advisory body has recommended that the "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution," including the coal mine on the island, should be listed as a World Cultural Heritage site. The event was organized by the Japan Concrete Institute. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Meiji industrial sites endorsed for World Heritage listing

File photo taken in July 2014 shows a decaying housing complex at Hashima Coal Mine on Hashima Island, popularly known as "Battleship Island," off Nagasaki in southwestern Japan. Hashima Coal Mine is among the 23 "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution" that a UNESCO advisory panel has recommended for World Heritage status. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Battleship Island" off Nagasaki

File photo taken April 25, 2015, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Hashima Coal Mine on Hashima Island, popularly known as "Battleship Island," off Nagasaki in southwestern Japan. Hashima Coal Mine is among the 23 "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution" that a UNESCO advisory panel has recommended for World Heritage status. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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'Battleship' island opened to public for 1st time in 35 yrs

NAGASAKI, Japan - Former islanders and sightseers walk around the now uninhabited Hashima Island off the southwestern Japan prefecture of Nagasaki on April 22. The city of Nagasaki allowed people to make a one-day trip to the tiny island, nicknamed Gunkanjima (battleship island), the same day for the first time in 35 years. (Kyodo)

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'Battleship' island opened to public for 1st time in 35 yrs

NAGASAKI, Japan - About 70 sightseers and former residents visit the now uninhabited Hashima Island, nicknamed Gunkanjima (battleship island), off the southwestern Japan prefecture of Nagasaki on April 22. The city of Nagasaki allowed people to make a one-day trip to the tiny island for the first time in 35 years. (Kyodo)

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'Battleship' island opened to public for 1st time in 35 yrs

NAGASAKI, Japan - Toshiko Kuroda, who formerly lived on Hashima Island, points to the ruin of a condominium on the island off the southwestern Japan prefecture of Nagasaki on April 22. She visited the tiny uninhabited island, nicknamed Gunkanjima (battleship island), after the city of Nagasaki allowed people to make a one-day trip there for the first time in 35 years. (Kyodo)

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Police arrest Ichihashi, suspect in murder of British woman

GIFU, Japan - The parents of Tatsuya Ichihashi, the suspect in the 2007 murder of British language school teacher Lindsay Hawker, speak to the press in front of their home in the central Japan city of Hashima, Gifu Prefecture, after Ichihashi's arrest on Nov. 10, 2009. They told reporters they have been praying for Lindsay Hawker every day and hope that their son would expiate his crime. (Kyodo)

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Great Nobi Earthquake (Kasamatsu Village)

Kasamatsu village is the present Kasamatsu-cho of Hashima-gun of Gifu prefecture. There was great disaster here, and the newspaper coverage reports the gravity of the disaster. According to the Jiji dated November 6, there were 555 totally destroyed houses, 29 half destroyed houses, 205 deaths, 382 wounded and 547 fires.==Date:unknown, Place:Gifu, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number39‐12‐0]

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Ex-resident visits "Gunkanjima"

NAGASAKI, Japan - A woman points to her former residence 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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Ex-resident visits home on "Gunkanjima"

NAGASAKI, Japan - A man (L) walks to his former residence on Hashima, a currently uninhabited island popularly known as "Gunkanjima" (Battleship Island), in Nagasaki City, southwestern Japan, with a Nagasaki city official 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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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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"Gunkanjima" island of Nagasaki

FUKUOKA, Japan - Hashima, a deserted island popularly known as "Gunkanjima" (Battleship Island), in Nagasaki City, southwestern Japan, is seen in the photo taken in September 2013. (Kyodo)

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Japan GSDF's flood rescue training

Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force personnel row a boat on the Kiso River in Hashima in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 20, 2020, as part of disaster rescue training in the wake of river flooding in the prefecture caused by torrential rain in July.

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Japan GSDF's flood rescue training

Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force personnel row a boat on the Kiso River in Hashima in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 20, 2020, as part of disaster rescue training in the wake of river flooding in the prefecture caused by torrential rain in July.

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"Battleship Island" in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 29, 2020, shows the heavily damaged No. 30 building (C) -- Japan's oldest reinforced concrete-made apartment complex -- at World Heritage site Hashima Island, known as Battleship Island, off Nagasaki. Local authorities see some aging buildings on the island as difficult to be maintained or restored.

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"Battleship Island" in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 29, 2020, shows the heavily damaged No. 30 building (C) -- Japan's oldest reinforced concrete-made apartment complex -- at World Heritage site Hashima Island, known as Battleship Island, off Nagasaki. Local authorities see some aging buildings on the island as difficult to be maintained or restored.

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"Battleship Island" in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 29, 2020, shows World Heritage site Hashima Island, known as Battleship Island, off Nagasaki, southwestern Japan. Local authorities see some aging buildings on the island as difficult to be maintained or restored.

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"Battleship Island" in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 29, 2020, shows World Heritage site Hashima Island, known as Battleship Island, off Nagasaki, southwestern Japan. Local authorities see some aging buildings on the island as difficult to be maintained or restored.