Why All People Left Hashima Island in Japan
A concrete island with tumble-down houses and not a single tree or plant around. The gloomiest place on Earth you’ve ever seen, for sure. Can it be real? In fact, it is. Welcome to Hashima!
This island 9 miles from Nagasaki is one of many hundreds of uninhabited islands in the prefecture. Unlike others, which are green and covered with forests, Hashima looks like bare rocks with no plants on them. If you look closer you’ll see that the rocks are actually empty high-risers standing on manmade coastal banks.
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TIMESTAMPS:
A brief history of Hashima 1:00
The first big concrete building in Japan 3:09
Why Hashima citizens had no umbrellas 5:01
No ground, no plants 5:59
Why all the residents of Hashima left the island forever 6:24
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SUMMARY:
- For many centuries, people living on Takashima - a big island not far from Hashima, gathered coal, which lay close to the surface.
- In 18-19th centuries Takashima island was part of feudal lands belonging to the Fukahori family. They saw the profit that coal mining started to bring and took control of all the bargains in their own hands.
- Takashima coal had a high quality and soon filled the treasury of Nagasaki with foreign currency.
- At the end of the 19th century they sold the island to Mitsubishi, which was a shipping enterprise then. The new owner built dwelling houses for workers.
- Hashima produced about 150.000 tons of coal each year, and its population in 1916 was 3000 people.
- In 1959 the population of Hashima was over 5,200. The total square of the island is 6.3 ha, and 60% of it are rocky slopes where most of the dwelling houses are built.
- Between residential houses, there were squeezed a primary school, a secondary school, a playground, a gym, a cinema, bars, restaurants, 25 different stores, and a Buddhist church.
- Hashima citizens had no umbrellas, as the mazes of corridors and stairs connected all the dwelling houses and served as a transport system.
- Housing, electricity and water were free for workers, but all the residents had to take part in public works and clean-up of the territory.
- The most remarkable trait of this place was a total absence of the ground and plants. Hashima was nothing more but coal ash, laid around a bare rock.
- At the end of the 1960-s Japanese economy skyrocketed, and coal was admitted an ecologically dirty fuel.
- The government started shutting down coalmines around the country, and Hashima wasn’t an exclusion.
- Mitsubishi reduced staff on Hashima, retrained workers and sent them to other subsidiaries.
- By 1974 there were about 2000 people left on the island, and on January 15, 1974 the company officially announced the closure of the mine.
- Hashima now is an abandoned and forgotten island, which looks as a strange lighthouse guarding the entrance to Nagasaki bay.
- In September 2008 Hashima (Gunkanjima) island was included in the list to get the status of UNESCO world heritage as a monument to a whole period of Japanese history.
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5 жыл бұрын
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OctoPUSSY
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There's a movie about this place it's called "Battleship island"
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4 жыл бұрын
Ooh my favourite movie 💕💕
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4 жыл бұрын
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4 жыл бұрын
Loved it
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3 жыл бұрын
Lovely movie
So no mention of forced labor on the island? So I guess there were no period of forced labor during the island’s history 🙄 🤦♂️
@KD-ee3vq
4 жыл бұрын
Max Hong Yes, there were some forced laborers on the island.
@joyceyu5786
2 жыл бұрын
Fr they dont mention that? And the wars? :/
@taiya2859
Жыл бұрын
Yes , should talk about forced labor, many Koreans lost their life… sad story behind that island !!!!!
@xxxblizzardxkingxxx
Жыл бұрын
There was no forced labor on Hashima Island -Joo Dee
@michaellashawn7640
Жыл бұрын
It was mentioned when said nothing but laborers to them
No one: The guy in the video: Ha-Si-Ma
@rjah84
5 жыл бұрын
😅 i thought i was the only one..isn't it annoying?
@hwdareu5848
4 жыл бұрын
That's what most of the English people speaks like that .
@HeyUncleA
4 жыл бұрын
I cringe every time he says it... but he just has a lisp🙃
@jamessskadlaasayar5283
4 жыл бұрын
Its “hashima”
@MultiCapricorn007
3 жыл бұрын
Naa gaa sakii
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Shi in Japanese is pronounce in “she” sound so Hashima is pronounced Ha-She-Ma and not Ha-Si-Ma
@janettefolguirinas594
5 жыл бұрын
i know
@borispsalman
5 жыл бұрын
its funny that he pronounced hiroshima correctly but failed with hashima which is essentially the same principle :D
@pollypocket2282
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you! It was like you could have a drinking game for each time they mispronounced it!
@BloodMoonBall
5 жыл бұрын
He said Prefecture and Gunkanjima wrong too
@diveoshin1863
2 жыл бұрын
Made me second guess myself lol I thought I was saying it incorrectly this whole time.
TIMESTAMPS: A brief history of Hashima 1:00 The first big concrete building in Japan 3:09 Why Hashima citizens had no umbrellas 5:01 No ground, no plants 5:59 Why all the residents of Hashima left the island forever 6:24
When you don’t have anything funny to say because it’s an educational video
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5 жыл бұрын
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0:21 welcome to HASIMA HASHIMA sign:what?
Now I know what island that I can live on when the apocalypse happen.😋
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5 жыл бұрын
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5 жыл бұрын
Are u ready to move there?
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5 жыл бұрын
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5 жыл бұрын
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5 жыл бұрын
@@scarlettassassinator6192 lol a generator aint gonna last forever boi
Great video
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I thought it said Hiroshima. I was gonna be like “ well of course they left “
@curtisdoughtyx1347
5 жыл бұрын
The Rino Channel Gaming same 😂
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5 жыл бұрын
Well, not Hiroshima)
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5 жыл бұрын
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@rhiannonsmith6516
5 жыл бұрын
The Rino Channel Gaming we did it in history and it was called hiroshima
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5 жыл бұрын
Paul Mitchell that is an island
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Restoring the island yet seems unlikely. It'll remain a dream unless someone would find a better source of resources for the islands survival. It will remain dependent on nagasaki and would later on would just drag it down. Aside from considerable amount of money needed, the island's vulnerable location and the lack of resource to survive independently are just a few reasons why bringing back the island to its former glory would remain a pipe dream.
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because of the movie of the battleship island why I'm here
You missed the most important thing. Many korean people force to work there and no pay. Sad story but important truth about history.
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Жыл бұрын
@kemy Until all the Japanese become aware of your atrocities against East and Southeast Asians during WW2. Your kind did not even ask for forgiveness about the R@pe of N@nking! Shame on ya'll!
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2 ай бұрын
@kemy453Tell that to all historians and history teachers.
The "shi" in Hashima makes the "she" sound.
@janettefolguirinas594
5 жыл бұрын
right
And this is why, when getting stranded, I hope to be here since people where here too.
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I wish these videos was post in 2014 when I was still studying in local university.. I got these topic for presentation.. Lol.. But still I got the highest mark that day.. Even though I just talk about how skyfall include this island also how this island became famous for its dark tourism..
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5 жыл бұрын
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5 жыл бұрын
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Man... I am super curios about this thing. Maybe I'll visit it one day. ^.^
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5 жыл бұрын
Did you watch it?
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5 жыл бұрын
I do
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5 жыл бұрын
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5 жыл бұрын
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4 жыл бұрын
Jœy_ JåñX i searched it up
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They needs to open for tourist attractions advertising this on social media would make fortunes to come there visit
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Hasima almost like a battleship
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When you don't even know what to say
Bright Side: Says TakaSHIma. Also Bright Side: _hasima._ What haplened to the word HaSHIma Bright Side? *_Oof_*
At 4:25, he says 6.3 "HA" Seriously??? HA?? Get it right, it's hectare. Ha is the abbreviation for Hectare. 🤦♀️
@YoChoppa_
4 жыл бұрын
I was literally like did he really just say haa and not hectare???
I'm early for once actually early yay 😄😀😄😇
When bright side said that there is no living plant just bare rocks... Us: sees bushes growing in the center of the city.....
Is Hashima Island for sale
More abandoned cities, please!
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@AjayThakur-ix5du
5 жыл бұрын
Hi
Just ftr, this had ~84000 people per square kilometer. Kowloon Walled City had an estimated 1300000 people per square kilometer. It's not even close.
The Kowloon Walled City exceeds this density. Almost 12,000 people per hectare versus Battleship Island’s sub-1,000 people per hectare.
Can you buy it ?
Sounds like Shutter Island😱
The narrator sounds familiar and I find that highly compelling! HISTORY'S MYSTERY CHANNEL!
I see plants and trees not sure what you're talking about. The video shows greenery might want to revise that.
Who else is reading the comments and watching the video at the same time?
@AjayThakur-ix5du
5 жыл бұрын
Me sexy heheh
Mother Gaia will always reclaim her resources. Very interesting!
This hashima island have dark history
@user-ul5lx3pn3i
2 жыл бұрын
There is no dark history. Rather, both Japanese and Koreans lived and worked in harmony. There is no coercion there. I have a salary. Because they Koreans had the same rights as Japanese. Do you say that the testimony of your peers is a lie?
I did a progect for 1 year on this you mist the best bits
LOL 5:14 Say there is no motorized mean of transportation... then u see a scooter.
Just watched today when it launched 😅
Um can someone help me i dont understand it so much please tell my why people left this island
@kd5412
3 жыл бұрын
There was a coal mine under the sea but they took all of them and left the island.
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5 жыл бұрын
I hope my group got positive to understand
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I hope it becomes a really city with people again its sooo sad
@Joshua_N-A
Жыл бұрын
Could've been turned into a resort of sorts but Japanese economy these days isn't that of the 1980's anymore ever since the bubble bursted.
Watched full video with full interest 😂
I would have built a huge spa or something on it
It will be better if PUBG put the map in the game .... No snake less space intense gameplay 😍
who came here cuz watching the battleship island?
Yeah i know that island from anime called AIR GEAR.
@BRIGHTSIDEOFFICIAL
5 жыл бұрын
Really?
@YogurtBuah
5 жыл бұрын
BRIGHT SIDE absolutely yes
Alcatraz East?
If you renovate ruins, they are no longer ruins
people could live there again soon
JUST WOW
The kowloon city in Hong Kong probably had 10 times as high population density
@benjaminm.81
2 жыл бұрын
15 times.
Foreigner: Ha-si-ma Me: Ha-she-ma...
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5 жыл бұрын
Is Jackie your favorite actor?
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5 жыл бұрын
Yes
4:26 ahh yes, the total surface area of the island is 6.3 [minecraft villager sound]
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Corregidor Island in Philippines...
So Hashima is a giant couple of rock?
In the game Pokémon GO there’s Poke Stop there, lol!
YES
Thank God I'm not there but I wish I was in tokyo😅😅😅
There’s loads of trees and shrubs
Iyou forgot the kowloon walled city
Kowloon walled city island almost
Hashima's population density was nowhere close to Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong.
As a native Japanese Speaker, I feel the difference of sound is slight, and it is not important problem. Because, Alphabet cannot express sound of Japanese language definitely. "Hashima" is just a romanization of Japanese "はしま". For reference, "Hasima" is also romanization of Japanese "はしま". For most Japanese, "Hashima" and "Hasima" are almost same. What I want to say is that the content of the video picture is important, and pronunciation of proper noun is not so important topic.
@m_know1126
2 жыл бұрын
what is the weather like in hashima island
in new zealand the moon is out at 5:53 pm
Bright side talks about Japan often. I wonder why...?
maybe it has a dark secrets, a Gundam perhaps
I had been there before when. I was 3 my parents use to dig coal & now we live in China
@cutiegirl558
5 жыл бұрын
...
@theclosetowner9377
4 жыл бұрын
Not being a creep, but how old are you, I want to know just to know if its true.
Hashima needs to be revamped into a temple. You can ferry plants in. I'd live there. Alone...
@baqikenny
2 жыл бұрын
lol wish