Bedroom yarraville Glass bottles line a wooden

Glass bottles line a wooden shelf inside one of the Ogurawa settlement's crumbling structures

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a desk stripped of purpose

broken cues scattered across the surface

Bedroom yarraville Glass bottles line a woodenA tatami room in the company housing of the Ogurawa settlement, photographed in 2016 after a decade of abandonment. Shoji screens line three walls, several panels torn away; a small CRT television sits on the floor against the fusuma closet doors, debris scattered across the matting. The settlement, built and owned by Nitchitsu Co. Ltd. to house the Chichibu Mine workforce, has been uninhabited since September 2006. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village