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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-resident of Shikotan thinks of boyhood days

Hiroshi Tokuno, a Japanese national and former resident of Shikotan, one of the Russian-held islands claimed by Japan off Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, recalls the days he spent in Shikotan around the end of World War II on a ship off the prefecture's Cape Nosappu (back, R), near the Japan-Russia intermediate line on April 2, 2015. Animated film "Giovanni's Island" was created based on his experience. (Photo by Daisuke Suzuki)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Alumni from biracial orphanage in postwar Japan gather for "reunion"

Former residents of Elizabeth Saunders Home, an orphanage established in Japan in 1948 for abandoned biracial children born between U.S. occupation troops and Japanese women, gather to celebrate ex-resident Joni Honda's (4th from L) wedding in Las Vegas on July 25, 2015. About 2,000 such children who were ostracized in Japan due to their looks and left by their parents because of poverty lived in the orphanage in Oiso, southwest of Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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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)