Many friends who have seen the movie "007 Space Crisis" must have a deep impression of the strange island in the movie, and it is likely that everyone will think that the island was only created by special effects. But this is not the case, in fact, this island is real, it is the Gunkanjima Island in Nagasaki, Japan, also known as "Ghost Island". What kind of story has happened on this island? What is its history? Why does everyone say that this island is a hell of Chinese? It was selected by the United Nations as a World Heritage Site, is such an island eligible? Hello everyone, today we will talk about the story of Gunkanjima, Japan's "ghost island". Welcome friends to bookmark, forward, like, comment and follow!
The movie "Gunkanji" starring South Korean actor Song Joong-ki has recently successfully aroused heated discussion among Chinese netizens, and The Gunkanjima Island in Nagasaki, Japan, has suddenly appeared in the eyes of the world, and now it has become a tourist attraction under development. Gunkanjima Island, formerly known as Hashima Island, is located fifteen kilometers from the city center and is one of the 505 desert islands in the Nagasaki area. The origin of the alias "Gunkanjima" is because the appearance of this island resembles a warship, in fact, there are rumors that it is because during World War II, the US military mistook the island for a warship when it bombed Japan at a high altitude, so it did not sink to the bottom of the sea after many shots, and finally found that it was not a warship, and the origin of its alias was really quite fantastic. And there is also a cold knowledge, there are still a lot of aircraft fragments on the island, and there are many shell casings left over from World War II, so the rumors about it may be true. Although Gunkanjima Island is now deserted, at its peak, the island was inhabited by at least 5,300 residents, and the population density was nine times higher than that of Tokyo today, which was the most densely populated island in the world at that time.
So what does the once bustling island look like now? In fact, all the residents living on Gunkanjima at that time left in 1974, so the facilities on Gunkanjima island became unmanaged. The island's clinics still have dilapidated equipment; apartment buildings are littered with damaged children's toys; old television sets are dusty; underpasses are even more eerie, and the island sits quietly in the middle of the sea, like a ghost town abandoned by the world, and the only people who are alive are probably the wild cats, wild dogs, and illegal tourists left behind.
The island was blockaded by Japan for thirty-five years, until the ban on Gunkanjima was lifted in 2009, and the Japanese government began to build a new pier on Gunkanjima, but even if it could be landed on the island, there were still many dangerous buildings on the island that were not allowed to be approached. After The reopening of Gunkanjima Island in 2009, 230,000 tourists visited Gunkanjima in less than four years, contributing nearly 900 million yen to Japan.
So what is the history of this deserted island? That's starting from 1810, when the Japanese government found very rich coal resources in Gunkanjima, but because after the Meiji Restoration, Japan did not have a very strong reserve force, and Japan could not meet the needs of mining technology or labor at that time, so it was impossible to carry out coal mining on Gunkanjima, and Japan's strength at that time was completely unable to support its own ambitions. However, the turning point came in 1980, when Mitsubishi bought the island for the development of coal resources, because of Mitsubishi's acquisition plan, Gunkanjima suddenly attracted a lot of attention, since then Gunkanjima has experienced more than eighty years of "brilliant" years, in nearly a century, this island is one of Japan's most important coal producing areas, after all, friends know that Japan is too small, a small island coal mine can be called the most important.
After Mitsubishi bought it, it built a mine with a length of 200 meters and began its mining career. But because Gunkanjima is located in the middle of the sea, waves often occur, so in 1907 Mitsubishi built another so that it would not be persecuted by the waves, and in 1916 they arranged for the construction of Japan's largest concrete building, which could protect workers from hurricanes.
No one really believes that the Japanese can be so kind, right? In fact, it was all just an illusion, and many Chinese laborers had been tortured like hell on Gunkanjima Island. During World War II, because of the needs of the war, Japan began to accelerate the progress of coal mining on the island, and began to transport a large number of Chinese and Korean laborers to gunship island to work hard, forcing them to work free of charge. These laborers not only had to work more than a dozen hours a day on the island, but also ate very poor food, and more than 700 of the more than 3,000 Chinese laborers died at the hands of the Japanese after the end of World War II. It is precisely because of Japan's approach that we should remember history even more, Japan does not even dare to study the history class during World War II, why only the victims should study history? And what about the perpetrators who can sit back and live a carefree life? And Japan applied for the shogun island in 2015, but what qualifications does such a place have to become a tourist attraction? Their foreign minister said that "forced labor does not mean forced labor", and that Japan's crimes will probably be tampered with by Japan like the Nanjing Massacre.
Continuing to talk about the history of Gunkanjima Island, although the coal industry in Gunkanjima is now completely over, it did provide Japan with a lot of coal resources at that time, and it could produce nearly 410,000 tons of coal in the highest annual output, and because of the development of the coal industry, The development level of Gunkanjima was also very prosperous. When the time came to the 1960s, oil replaced coal as The main energy source in Japan, and many coal mines in japan were closed, so in 1974, Mitsubishi Corporation also officially closed the coal on Gunkanjima Island, so all the residents of Gunkanjima Island were evacuated, and Gunkanjima island was lonely.
Now Managaha Island has become a tourist attraction, tens of thousands of tourists because of some movies, TV series to go, although the past of Gunkanjima has become an obliterated past, but the facts will never be covered up, history can be forgiven, but it can never be forgotten. So we will also bless Managaha Island today that it can be developed again, but we hope that Japan can still face up to history.
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