Sacred Haven of Debauchery

A Japanese hermit who lived on an island alone, naked, for almost 30 years, was forcibly returned to civilization. This was reported by The Mirror. Masafumi Nagasaki lived on the uninhabited island of Sotopanari in the Ryukyu archipelago since 1989 without a lighter, food, clothes, or means of communication. Fishermen rarely swam to the island. The man repeatedly said that his only dream was to die on the island that had become his home: "Everything I need, I can find here, I don't need anything else. I want to leave this life here, without bothering anyone, during a typhoon." Every day he exercised in the morning and then cleaned the beach. Despite his wishes, local authorities took the 82-year-old Nagasaki, who was ill with the flu, from the island and forbade him from returning due to his poor health. He was placed in a nursing home in the city of Ishigaki, located 60 kilometers from Sotopanari. Little is known about Nagasaki's life before moving to the island, as he does not like to talk about the past. Journalists learned that he had a wife and two children, worked as a photographer, and also owned a hostess bar. At some point, he decided to escape from city life, but initially planned to spend no more than two years on the island. Nagasaki did not eat meat, fish, or turtle eggs, which were found all over the island. He explained his refusal of meat by his love for nature: "I saw how baby turtles hatched and crawled to the sea. Every time I got goosebumps, and I thought how wonderful life is."