Heaven on Earth?? Battleship Island in Nagasaki, Japan!

One of Japan's heritage places is here. As Chika finally uploaded the video that appeared in her commercial shoot as she joined Youtube's campaign. Can you believe in something unbelievable of which I myself never thought to see this man made battleship island in order for Japan to catch up with West expansion of transportation, making machinery, etc. Watch this video and BELIEVE THE UNBELIEVABLE island in Nagasaki, Japan!

Highlights

"Today, we're going to take a trip to an abandoned island of the coast of Nagasaki called Gunkanjima or battleship island officially named Hashima. Gunkanjima got its nickname when a newspaper journalists prefer to its unique shape as resembling a battleship."

"For those of you who watched my other channel you guys might have seen the video. It was like a trailer like video for my channel that I uploaded last year that was actually a TV commercial. So last autumn I was part of this Youtube campaign. Youtube helped me promote my channel. I was on TV, I had billboards all over Tokyo and magazines. It was really really crazy. I still can't believe it happen. The reason why I bring this up is because that there is a scene in that commercial where I'm standing on the deck of a boat with Gunkanjima behind me, filming myself selfie style, talking to you guys through my camera like I always do."

"As Japan tried to grow its economy to catch up with the West expanding transportation, making machinery, building infrastructure, production of fuel as as well as steel, was extremely important. All of which heavily relied on coal."

"The island had everything you would ever need. They had a hospital, post office, hair salon, touching go parlor, shrines, temples, a pool, public baths, schools obviously. The only three things they didn't have because of lack of space where parks, cemeteries and crematories, other than that they had it all."

"Almost a hundred percent of the household on the island had the three major sciences of that time: TV's, washing machines and refrigerators."

"I was watching the news the other day where they were interviewing former residents of Gunkanjima and I was really surprised to hear what the wife had to say. It was an older couple the wife was like oh it was such a wonderful time I wish I could go back."

"When you hear the name battleship and you see the colts on that blocks all deteriorating away and crumbling away in the trusted street frameworks and the unmaintained wilderness that's just growing out of the buildings you just don't really picture this paradise like place like heaven on earth but it was really like that for some of the people."

abandoned

Adjective. Having been deserted or cast off

battleship

Noun. A heavy warship of a type built chiefly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with extensive armor and large-caliber guns.

trailer

Noun. An excerpt or series of excerpts from a movie or program used to advertise it in advance; a preview.

deck

Noun. A structure of planks or plates, approximately horizontal, extending across a ship or boat at any of various levels, especially one of those at the highest level and open to the weather

Catch up with

Phrasal verb. Succeed in reaching a person who is ahead of one

Crematory

Noun. A place where a dead person’s body is cremated.

deteriorate

Verb. Become progressively worse

japanagos, 15-05-27 23:32, 15-06-07 12:34, Marz