emma999 Sep 10, 2016 5:38am

Poignant story, no doubt. It looks like Hashima (Gunkanjima or battleship) Island. Japanese government got its population evacuated in 1974 after the coal mines dried up and Japan switched to petroleum fuel. Citizens who were mainly Chinese prisoners-of-war, and Koreans, and were used as slave labourers were heart broken when evacuated since they were commanded to leave all their possessions behind and had no warnings of any kind prior to that. The owner of the island was Mitsubishi Goshi Kaisha, but now its part of Nagasaky city and since the merger with the former town of Takashima in 2005. Travel to Hashima was re-opened on April 22, 2009, after 35 years of closure. (check the Wikipedia)