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	Encyclopedia: Gunkanjima
		Gunkanjima Island (è»è¦å³¶) is one among 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture about 15 kilometers from Nagasaki itself.
		The island was populated from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility.
		Gunkanjima is located at 32.628Â° N, 129.737Â° E.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gunkanjima (199 words)

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		On Gunkanjima, however, not only was the common space ratio higher than elsewhere, the public realm was arranged and used in such a way as to compensate for the restricted size of the living space.
		This was because the architects made use of the Kyo-ma System of tatami arrangement whereby the tatami multiples correspond to internal dimensions of a room and exclude the thickness of structural members such as pillars.
		Unlike the apartment houses developed in Europe, the high rise apartment houses on Gunkanjima may be interpreted as traditional rows on tenements (nagaya) superimposed one above another as an experiment in exploiting the potential of the new structural material, reinforced concrete, in order to make optimum use of the limited land available.
	www.makingplaces.org /ch2/ch2p4.htm (1167 words)

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		Chapter 3: A study of the weathering, aging and maintenance of the buildings on Gunkanjima.
		Gunkanjima used to be regarded as a totally lifeless and artificial island.
		Certainly there are no tall trees, but in the residential area after the war they managed to make small flower gardens, rooftop vegetable gardens, and green houses using any available space.
	www.makingplaces.org /ch3/ch3p8.htm (358 words)

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		It was known as Gunkanjima, Battleship Island, and would probably be called that until it slipped back under the sea.
		The first concrete building in Japan was built on Gunkanjima's rocky side, a dormitory for the miners and their families.
		Which meant that he was now loose somewhere in the maze of Gunkanjima, and that all three members of their team were alone and isolated.
	www.thekeep.org /~mike/imbs13.txt (13229 words)

	Inaka Life in Japan: Gunkanjima　　軍艦島
		Hashima, aka Gunkanjima, was once the site of Japan's most densely populated city.
		The actual name of the island is Hashima, but it got its nickname "Gunkanjima" because its silhouette looks like a great battleship on the seas.
		In fact, during WWII, American forces actually fired on the island, thinking it was indeed a battleship blocking their path.
	marioinjapan.blogspot.com /2005/10/gunkanjima.html (346 words)

	gewgaw » Battleship Island
		I was rooting around in my living room this morning, looking for a book (I have many), when I came across the “Gunkanjima: Awakening of a Dead Island” which I picked up in Tokyo a couple of years ago.
		I had always wanted to visit “Gunkanjima” (The Battle Ship Island) ever since I found out about it on encyclopedia which my father bought me when I was twelve.
		In his images of this island, Saiga has really captured the duality (or is it a cycle?) of life and death, civilization and chaos, heaven and hell.
	www.cs.northwestern.edu /~hunicke/blog/index.php?p=41088 (518 words)

	Do I Contradict Myself? » 2004 » June » 24 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Gunkanjima - Views of an Abandoned Island (0)
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	www.ericlindbloom.com /archives/2004/06/24 (172 words)

	Gunkanjima-text-E
		Off the westernmost coast of Japan, is an island called "Gunkanjima" that is hardly known even to the Japanese.
		Seen from the ocean, the silhouette of the island closely resembled a battleship - so, the island came to be called Gunkanjima, or Battleship island.
		I was twenty-two when I first visited the island I had dreamed about ever since childhood.
	www.ne.jp /asahi/saiga/yuji/gallary/gunsu/g-text-e.html (547 words)

	Ektopia » Abandoned Island
		Saiga Yuji visited the tiny Japanese island of Gunkanjima during 1974 and spent three months taking photos of the mining community.
		Gunkanjima was the most densely populated island in the world at the time.
		He went on to document the island changing after the mine closed down and went back to take more photos 10 years later.
	www.ektopia.co.uk /ektopia/index.php?p=47 (166 words)

	kwc blog: Deserted island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Gunkanjima is a very small island in Japan where coal was discovered.
		As with the discovery of any valuable natural resource, the land was quickly developed, and then abandoned once it...
		As with the discovery of any valuable natural resource, the land was quickly developed, and then abandoned once it was no longer viable.
	kwc.org /blog/archives/oldarchives/1001-1500/001475.html (125 words)

	Juergen Specht - Photographs - Documentation 30: Gunkanjima - The Forgotten Island
		Close to Nagasaki lies an unpopulated island called Gunkanjima, which used to be the most dense populated place on earth.
		The war ended shortly after August 9th, 1945, as Gunkanjima's inhabitants saw and felt the explosion of the atomic bomb which totally devastated Nagasaki, only 16km away.
		After the very last resident left at April 20th, 1974, Gunkanjima became a ghost island, battered by typhoons, earthquakes and the sea with only the occasional explorer documenting the beauty of decay.
	www.juergenspecht.com /documentations?number=30&overview=6 (382 words)

	Surface Damage :: Full of Sound, Fury, and Significantly Nothing
		Also, in a related story, here is an amazing photo account of Gunkanjima, a small almost forgotten island off the coast of Japan.
		Gunkanjima was a small reef island that beginning in 1870 was settled for the sole purpose of mining coal.
		However, in 1974 the coal mines were closed and everyone left -- leaving behind a short history of artifacts and deserted buildings.
	www.surfacedamage.com /archive/2004_05_23_sd.asp (230 words)

	AkuAku: gunkanjima: warship island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In 1974 the mine was closed and the population left, leaving the island derelict.
		It is called Gunkanjima (Warship Island) because from the distance it looks like a battleship.
		Listed below are links to weblogs that reference 'gunkanjima: warship island' from AkuAku.
	akuaku.org /archives/hold/000257.shtml (525 words)

	HASHIMA>
		Completed around 1907, the high sea walls gave the island the appearance of a battleship riding the waves.
		The resemblance was so uncanny that a local newspaper reporter dubbed it Gunkanjima (Battleship Island), a nickname that soon replaced the official name in common parlance.
		Hashima was producing about 150,000 tons of coal annually and its population had soared to over 3,000 when, in 1916, Mitsubishi built a reinforced concrete apartment block on the island to alleviate the lack of housing space and to prevent typhoon damage.
	www.uwosh.edu /home_pages/faculty_staff/earns/hashima.html (3331 words)

	Portage: Stuff Worth Saving
		Hashima Island, popularly known as Gunkanjima, is a small unpopulated island off the coast of Kyushu in southern Japan.
		We here at Portage suspect that Gunkanjima is exactly what it will be like after the Bodysnatchers invade (and have no doubt, they will).The strange urban geography of Gunkkanjima gives the island the appearance, when seen from the water, of being a huge, ghostly ship, in fact Gunkanjima literally means 'ship island'.
		Gunkanjima 3.0 is an amazing Flash based tour of the island with some gorgeous photographs and a 3-D model of the island.
	helloha.blogspot.com /2002_05_01_helloha_archive.html (10009 words)

	RandomURL » Gunkanjima - Deserted Japanese Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		I suspect I have spent just about exactly as much time actually writing as the average person my age has spent watching television, and that, as much as anything, may be the real secret here.
		A collection of decidedly eerie pictures of Gunkanjima, a small island off the coast of Japan upon which coal was discovered in 1810.
		From then until 1974, the island was quite heavily populated while the coal was mined out.
	randomurl.com /archives/2004/05/22/200 (149 words)

	nowhere somehow: Hashima Chronologie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The steam power station on Takashima Island neihboring Gunkanjima, started supplying electricity tro Gunkanjima.
		1945 The steam power station on Takashima was bombed by the U.S. Air Force, which stopped electricity supply to Gunkanjima, and the mining area filled with water.
		A special ration for coal mines was institutionalised.
	mirroirhome.blogspot.com /2005/10/hashima-chronologie.html (628 words)

	Nagasaki Post
		Once the nation's most densely populated area, Gunkanjima in Nagasaki was largely forgotten until a nonprofit organization began a campaign to preserve the island,...
		Sea cruises connecting Gunkanjima island and other former coal mining islands offer appealing attractions for students and others interested in the history of the...
		Behold as cartoon character Burt the Turtle teaches schoolchildren to duck and cover in case of atomic attack.
	archive.wn.com /2005/04/12/1400/nagasakipost (657 words)

	Details for Mika Björklund - Gunkanjima [wh069] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Sound artist Mika Björklund's latest project is a journey by evocation to the abandoned island city of Gunkanjima, which for a while during the 20th Century contained a heavily populated mining settlement.
		An diese anknüpfend erwartet einen auf Gunkanjima finsteres Ambient, das stellenweise an Schloss Tegal erinnern läßt.
		Deep drones, washes of sound-- there is a certain minimalism here, yet interesting sounds are always peeping out from around a corner.
	www.archive.org /details-db.php?mediatype=audio&identifier=wh069&from=thisJustIn (373 words)

	the "Forgotten" islands Hashima and Gunkanjima - Flashback Forum
		Have looked fore some more information and to confirm that all pictures are from the same place.
		edit: they are from two places, Hashima and Gunkanjima.
		Hashima is located near Nagasaki and Gunkanjima - I don't know.
	www.flashback.org /showthread.php?p=52318#post52318 (135 words)

	Hastur^3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Gunkanjima ("Battleship Island") is a deserted island off the coast of Japan.
		From 1810 to 1974 it was a major coal mining operation.
		Just installed it and it works like a charm.
	home.midsouth.rr.com /hasturcubed (904 words)

	nHumanities: Ghost towns in Japan
		An equally fascinating place is Gunkanjima, the "Battle Ship Island," a small island completely devoted to coal mining off the southwestern coast of Japan.
		It was abandoned in 1974 and travel there is no longer permitted.
		There are several sites devoted to Gunkanjima, but this one by Saiga Yuji is particularly haunting.
	nhumanities.blogspot.com /2005/05/ghost-towns-in-japan.html (447 words)

	October17_2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		But if he could find DNA from one, it would show that it`s feasible to look for traces of a virus.
		HASHIMA ISLAND in Nagasaki Prefecture is known as Gunkanjima, meaning "warship island," because of its fortress-like apaaearance.
		Below, a man-made white beach stretches along the coast of nearby Takashima Island - one of the projects the town is undertaking in an attempt to change its image to that of a tourist resort.
	members.tripod.co.jp /NBAC/News/october17_2000.html (4444 words)

	noscope \| Gunkanjima 1974
		Gunkanjima 1974 - These pictures are so pretty it makes you want to throw away everything you ever did and start over.
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		"Gunkanjima 1974" was written May 24th, 2004 and filed under Sidenotes.
	www.noscope.com /journal/2004/05/gunkanjima-1974 (87 words)

	Deluding Myself: May 2004
		Courtesy of Will, photos of the abandoned Japanese island of Gunkanjima, which was based around a coal mine that ran out in the early 1970s.
		If you don't have any plans to take the real, official Rorschach test, but are curious about its methods and scoring, this page offers some insight into how psychologists assess your inkblot answers, along with outlines of the blots from all ten of the official Rorschach cards.
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	deludingmyself.blogspot.com /2004_05_01_deludingmyself_archive.html (950 words)

	esthet.org
		His work is included in an exhibition, Japan: Contemporary Ceramics and Photography between Tradition and Today currently on display in Hamburg at Deichtorhallen.
		Yuji Saiga captured the little-known Gunkanjima (or Battleship Island), located off the coast of Nagasaki, in this ghostly fl and white photo essay, Views of an Abandoned Island.
		The island was used for coal-mining in the 19th century, and at one point housed 5300 residents living in low-rise apartments, until it was deserted in 1974.
	www.esthet.org /blog/archives/2003_04.html (5776 words)

	Gunkanjima - BeyondUnreal Forums
		Location: Gazing into the pixels of moral decay.
		Gunkanjima is "Battleship Island", so called because in profile it looks like a warship.
		I bring it up because these photographs of it are breath-taking.
	forums.beyondunreal.com /showthread.php?t=157599 (1154 words)

	A Complete Waste of Time » Blog Archive » Pics of abandoned “Battleship Island” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Nature art created with ice and twigs »
		Before long, the reef had grown into an artificial island three quarters of a mile across, with a population of 5,300 living in a concrete labyrinth of many-storied apartment houses and mining structures.
		This entry was posted on Monday, May 24th, 2004 at 8:39 pm and is filed under Art.
	www.mathewingram.com /blog?p=239 (213 words)

	June 1, 2001 Cover Story
		It is known for its massive rock formation that juts out from its calm water.
		Resembling a battleship, it is called Gunkanjima (battleship island), and attracts people for swimming and camping.The Kinoura Seashore is one of the most scenic places in Noto, and is designated as a national marine park.
		Close to the coastline, there is a pristine forest of camellias.
	www.weekender.co.jp /LatestEdition/010601/coverstory.html (1844 words)

	Zagula spells trouble: May 2004 Archives
		Wenn du deutsch sprichst, dann kannst du das Buch, Die Duckomenta, kaufen (or even if you don't speak German, you might want to buy the book) und auch dieses Blog, CharmingQuark, besuchen.
		Beautiful pictures from deserted Japanese industrial and war labor island called "Gunkanjima" About the island.
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	www.zagula.com /archives/2004_05.html (1301 words)

	Gunkanjima - Views of an Abandoned Island
		Photos of the ruins of a small artificial industrial island off the coast of Japan.
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