#art islands japan

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Gunkanjima Island - Nagasaki, Japan .

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

FEW PLACES IN THE WORLD have a history as odd, or as poignant as Gunkanjima’s.

The tiny, fortress-like island lies just off the coast of Nagasaki. The island is ringed by a seawall, covered in tightly packed buildings, and entirely abandoned - a ghost town that has been completely uninhabited for more than forty years. In the early 1900s, Gunkanjima was developed by the Mitsubishi Corporation, which believed - correctly - that the island was sitting on a rich submarine coal deposit.

For almost the next hundred years, the mine grew deeper and longer, stretching out under the seabed to harvest the coal that was powering Japan’s industrial expansion.

By 1941, the island, less than one square kilometer in area, was producing 400,000 tonnes of coal per year.

And many of those working slavishly in the undersea mine were forced laborers from Korea.

Even more remarkable than the mine was the city that had grown up around it.

To accommodate the miners, ten-story apartment complexes were built up on the tiny rock - a high-rise maze linked together by courtyards, corridors, and stairs. There were schools, restaurants, and gaming houses, all encircled by the protective seawall.

The island became known as “Midori nashi Shima,” the island without green.

Amazingly, by the mid-1950s, it housed almost six thousand people, giving it the highest population density the world has ever known. And then the coal ran out.

Mitsubishi closed the mine, everyone left, and this island city was abandoned, left to revert back to nature.

The apartments began to crumble, and for the first time, in the barren courtyards, green things started to grow. Broken glass and old newspapers blew over the streets. The sea-breeze whistled through the windows.

Now, fifty years later, the island is exactly as it was just after Mitsubishi left. A ghost town in the middle of the sea.

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That random marine's perspective highlights how dark and brutal the Marineford War was. This episode is a masterpiece .

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Piece I did for a fanfic I'm writing called Fire in Cairo <3 It's still not out but I'm jus so proud of this piece so I had to post it cuz gosh...

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Not A Hotel Ishigaki , Ishigaki City, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan,

Sou Fujimoto Architect

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Hashima Island, Nagasaki, Japan,

Image Courtesy: Media Drum World

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NOT A HOTEL ANYWHERE,

Base Camp: Aoshima, Miyazaki, Japan,

DDAA / DDAA LAB,

Cooperation with SOUP DESIGN Architecture,

Planting: Yard Works Inc. Textile Design: onder de linde Artwork: Hiroshi Takizawa

Photo: Kenta Hasegawa, NewColor inc

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Hunter X Hunter: Maboroshi no Greed Island for Sony PlayStation (2000)

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"Not A Hotel," Sagishima Island, Setouchi region, Sagi Japan,

Courtesy: BIG

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Preparatory drawing (hanshita-e) for an illustrated book, mounted on card. (R-L) Men from Vietnam, Philippines and Ryukyu. Ink on paper.

From the collection Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図 (Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything) by Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

[keepingitneutral]

Yuputira, Miyako Island, Japan,

Designed by Mariko Mori with Ring Architects and Oak Structural Design Office,

Images Yoshihiro Makino

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

Pumpkin sculpture, Naoshima Island, Shikoku

- Yayoi Kusama

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On this day in 2019, 60 cats were killed by poison on Japan's famous "Cat Island". UMASHIMA CAT on "HEY HUMAN, SEE WHAT YOU DO!?" Instagram:  milkdongcomics Facebook:  Milk DoNg Comics

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My CountryHumans OC aka Country Humanize character (Cindy Nilo Evelyn country doppelganger) Part 2

Here My CountryHumans collection:

• Oceania:

- Clara Olive (Australia 🇦🇺)

- Darel Gulara (Aboriginal Australia ⚫🟡🔴)

- Nicola Rosemary (Norfolk Island 🇳🇫)

- Mayang Suriani (Cocos (Keeling) Island 🇨🇨)

- Hua Li-Mei (Christmas Island 🇨🇽)

- Amiria Haeatatanga (Maori New Zealand 🇳🇿)

- Billie Amber (New Zealand 🇳🇿)

• Asia:

- Li Xīn Yí (China 🇨🇳)

- Ka Yan Mei (Hong Kong 🇭🇰)

- Amy Ying (Macau 🇲🇴)

- Mei-Fang (Taiwan 🇹🇼)

- Young Il-Woong (South Korea 🇰🇷)

- Jang Chae-Yeong (North Korea 🇰🇵)

- Himari Airi (Japan 🇯🇵)

- Amgalan Sarantuya (Mongolia 🇲🇳)

• Europe:

- Sophie Félice (France 🇫🇷)

- Ruby Blondie (United Kingdom (England) 🇬🇧/🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

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Yuputira, Miyako Island, Japan,

Designed by Mariko Mori with Ring Architects and Oak Structural Design Office,

Images Yoshihiro Makino

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Setouchi Retreat by Onko Chishin,

Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Shikoku Island, Japan,

Tadao Ando Architect