The Forbidden Island
This island is one of the
505 uninhabited
islands in the
Nagasaki Region of the administration
Japan, about 15 kilometers from
Nagasaki. The island is also known
as "Gunkan Jima" or is warships
island. In 1890
when a company (Mitsubishi)
bought the island
and began a project to get coal from the seabed around island. In 1916
they built a large concrete
the first in the island,
an apartment block built for the workers and also
functions to protect them
from hurricanes.