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congenitaldisease:

Hashima Island is an abandoned island which lies approximately 9 miles from Nagasaki, Japan. It was once a bustling mining community, with undersea coal mines. From 1930 to the end of the Second World War, prisoners of war were sent to the island and forced to mine coal under harsh conditions. It’s estimated that approximately 1,300 prisoners perished on the island. When the coal reserves dissipated in 1974, the mine was closed and the island left abandoned.

todayintokyo:

Since 2018 is the year of the dog, I’m doing a series of posts about dog / wolf shrines in or near Tokyo. The shrine that features in my second post is a very small and apparently nondescript one, hidden between tall buildings in Shibuya, but it’s unusual: instead of kitsune (foxes), it has wolf guardians. That’s very rare. It’s called Miyamasu Mitake Jinja (宮益御嶽神社), and though its origins are obscure, it dates back to the Edo period.

The first post, about Mitsumine Jinja, is here.