Remember the last movie of James Bond "Skyfall". There's a scene taken in a deserted island with supervillain Raul Silva, which brought Bond, forced him to shoot the girl, with whom he had sex. Now, this island really exists, it is in Hashima, Japan.
Since the end of the 19th century the island was a coal mine, going to a depth of 600 meters below the the sea. In the period from 1943 to 1945 Mitsubishi Corporation brought here the Chinese and Koreans for forced labor in the coal mines underwater. Many of them died from abusive working conditions.
This island was the most populous in the years of its history, the island had 30 large buildings houses, 25 shops, a school, two swimming pools, a hospital and a cemetery with a density of 139,100 people per square kilometer.
But Mitsubishi completely shutdown the mine in 1974 when Hashima fell and unable to repair. A few weeks later that most densely populated island were empty.
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