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Abandoned Japan

April 23, 2009 | RSS | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS

There's something endlessly interesting about abandoned locations (see: abandoned detroit). This round comes from Vice who explore an abandoned island in Japan:

An hour or so's sail from the port of Nagasaki, the abandoned island silently crumbles. A former coal mining facility owned by Mitsubishi Motors, it was once the most densely populated place on earth, packing over 13,000 people into each square kilometre of its residential high-risers. It operated from 1887 until 1974, after which the coal industry fell into decline and the mines were shut for good. With their jobs gone and no other reason to stay in this mini urban nightmare, almost overnight the entire population fled back to the mainland, leaving most of their stuff behind to rot.

And here are some more photos.

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1Johanna

Whoooooah. I had no idea about this, thanks for posting.

April 27, 2009

2harris

"Battleship Island" (it looks like a battleship from the sea, so much so it was torpedoed during WWII) was shown on a recent episode of World Without People on the History Channel.

April 28, 2009