Hashima: A Timeline
From industrial foundation to contested heritage, 1890–present
This interactive timeline traces the key events in Hashima Island's history across six overlapping themes. Use the filters to follow a single narrative thread, or read the full sequence to see how industrial history, wartime labour, community life, abandonment, and heritage politics interweave.
Listen while you read: Enable the soundscape to hear the island as it sounded during different periods. The audio shifts automatically as you scroll through the timeline.
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Go Deeper
The timeline provides an overview. For the full analysis, explore the modules:
Hashima in Time and Place
Historical context from Meiji industrialisation through wartime mobilisation to UNESCO inscription.
Module 04Labour, Empire, and Evidence
Coerced labour at Hashima and the politics of historical knowledge.
Module 08Why the Project Stayed Unreleased
The archive of obstruction: soft gatekeeping, procedural refusal, and temporal drag.