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.
In 1959, the island's population swells,
the population density at that time reached 835 people per hectare for the whole island (1,391 per hectare for the
central area settlement), the
densest population ever in the whole world.
When oil replaced coal in 1960, coal mines began closing, not
except in Gunkan Jima, in1974 Mitsubishi officially announced the closing of the mine, and finally emptied the island. In 2003 the island was taken as setting the film "Battle Royal II" and inspired a popular game "Killer7".
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