Piyapan Choopetch's paranormal thriller sees five Thai filmmakers struggle with the after-effects of a location shoot on Hashima, the abandoned Japanese island which inspired the villain's den in ...

New Delhi: Hashima Island, commonly called Gunkanjima, meaning Battleship Island, is one among 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Nagasaki itself.

Nine miles off the Japanese coast near Nagasaki lies Hashima Island, known to be one of the world's spookiest locations. The history of the island is dark and haunting as hundreds of workers faced a ...

A government investigation committee, Thursday, unveiled a report on Japan’s forced mobilization of Koreans on Hashima Island during its colonial rule (1910-1945). The findings of the report is the ...

MOST movie sets are more glitz and glam than ghosts and ghouls – but this spooky island proved the perfect lair for a James Bond villain. Hashima Island, nicknamed Gunkanjima, lent itself as a ...

Few people cared about the derelict Japanese island of Hashima until 2012, when its crumbling piers and abandoned apartment buildings were used as a backdrop for the secret island in the James Bond ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Things took a turn for the sinister at the dawn of World War II, when the Japanese turned the island into a bona ...

When humans left, nature prevailed. On Hashima Island, a 16-acre patch of land off the southern coast of Japan, grass and vines and flowers flourish as concrete and steel wither. Once one of the most ...

A TINY island off the coast of Japan, shaped like a battleship and left abandoned for decades, was a living "hell" for its former residents. Thousands of Korean and Chinese prisoners were forced to ...

Once home to a flurry of activity, it now lays in a deep sleep and its uninhabited buildings are frozen in time. Oh, and it’s probably very haunted. Hashima Island, also known by it’s infamous ...