Ritsuko Okazaki, was a Japanese singer-songwriter born on Hashima Island, commonly called Gunkanjima, an abandoned island lying about how manykilometers from the city of Nagasaki, in southern Japan?
Hashima Island Hashima Island (端島 , or simply Hashima — "-shima" is a Japanese suffix for "island" ) , commonly called Gunkanjima (軍艦島; meaning Battleship Island), is an abandoned island lying about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the city of Nagasaki, in southern Japan. It is one of 505 uninhabited islands in Nagasaki Prefecture. The island's most notable features are its abandoned concrete buildings, undisturbed except by nature, and the surrounding sea wall. While the island is a symbol of the rapid industrialization of Japan, it is also a reminder of its dark history as a site of forced labor prior to and during the Second World War.
Izu Peninsula The Izu peninsula (伊豆半島 , Izu-hantō ) is a large mountainous peninsula with deeply indented coasts to the west of Tokyo on the Pacific coast of the island of Honshū, Japan. Formerly the eponymous Izu Province, Izu peninsula is now a part of Shizuoka Prefecture. The peninsula has an area of 1,421.24 km² and its estimated population in 2005 was 473,942 people.