Comments by "Angry Kittens" (@AngryKittens) on "Explore 'Battleship Island,' Japan's Decaying Ghost Town | One Strange Rock" video.

  1. It was a coal-mining facility/prison camp in the 1930s to the end of WW2. A large number of the workers were forced laborers from Japanese-occupied territories in Korea and China. Many of them died under harsh conditions. After WW2, civilian workers replaced prison labor, before it was finally abandoned in the 1960s when the coal started to run out. Coal was also by then, far less profitable as it was being replaced by petroleum.
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  2. Gorgeous cinematography.
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  3. Not so much these days. Kaiju have been hunted to near-extinction for the world-famous hashima sashimi.
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