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Why was Hashima Island abandonned?
The legendary "Battleship Island" in Japan. It's all squalid and stuff now but why exactly was it abandonned? I saw some old colour photos of the area looking pretty normal with kids playing baseball and stuff. Was it just the overall degradation of the place that caused people to move away?
The island was populated from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility. A Japanese company called Mitsubishi bought the island in 1890 and began the project, the aim of which was retrieving coal from undersea mines. They built Japan's first large concrete building (9 stories high), a block of apartments in 1916 to accommodate their burgeoning ranks of workers and to protect against typhoon destruction.
As petroleum replaced coal in Japan in the 1960s, coal mines began shutting down all over the country, and Hashima's mines were no exception. Mitsubishi officially announced the closing of the mine in 1974, and today it is empty and bare, which is why it is called Ghost Island. Travel to Hashima was re-opened on April 22, 2009 after more than 20 years of closure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashima_Island
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