Japanese old man living alone on a deserted island for 29 years（附中文）

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Japanese old man living alone on a deserted island for 29 years

An 87-year-old Japanese man, who spent nearly three decades living on a desert island in a bid to escape civilization, has been granted his wish to bid farewell to his old island home one final time. Masafumi Nagasaki, dubbed the “naked hermit”, was a photographer in his fifties when he got fed up with civilisation. In 1989, he left his wife and two rumoured children and moved alone to Sotobanari, 1-km-wide densely vegetated and unpopulated islet, as he struggled to adapt to modern society in Japan and wanted to be alone on the isolated island. However, his stay was by no means easy. For one, there were no freshwater hundreds of kilometres south of Japan’s mainland. Also, his clothes were washed away in a typhoon, thus Nagasaki preferred being naked.

Gradually, he made Sotobanari his new home and lived there all by himself for 29 years.

But in 2018, a local fisherman spotted him lying unconscious on a beach. Doctors were called in who then took Nagasaki for hospital treatment as his health was deteriorating. He was later moved out of the island and that’s when his story became public.

Nagasaki’s journey was chronicled by Alvaro Cerezo, who documents island castaways and runs a company called Docastaway that drops tourists on deserted islands to live completely alone, according to the New York Post.

After his hospital treatment, the government gave him a bedroom and a “very little money” to cover his basic necessities.

Sadly, Nagaski has been unable to make many friends, as he had spent most of his time confined during the coronavirus pandemic.

“His tiny room became like his desert island where he could isolate himself, as it was the only place where he was able to live with clothes off and feel free like he did for the last 29 years,” Cerezo wrote in a blog post.

To pass the time, Nagasaki would often collect trash from the street but grew frustrated by the amount of pollution created by city inhabitants, Cerezo said.

“In a quintessential society like that of the Japanese, there was hardly anyone who could either understand his eccentric way of life or his extreme desire to live naked on a desert island,” Cerezo said.

日本一位87岁的老翁曾孤身一人在荒岛上生活了近30年，近日，这位老者有机会再次回到心爱的小岛屿，进行最后的告别。

日本一位年近九旬的老翁曾孤身一人在荒岛上生活了近30年，直到2018年，地方当局以他年纪老迈为由把他强行带回文明社会。近日，这位老者有机会再次回到心爱的小岛屿，进行最后的告别。

老人的故事被人们称为现代真实版的「鲁滨逊漂流记」。

现年87岁的长崎真砂弓（Masafumi Nagasaki）因1989年独自一人搬到冲绳西南部一座名为外离岛（Sotobanare-Jima）的荒岛上生活而闻名。这是一个无人岛，面积仅约一平方公里，虽然离市区不算太远，

但周围的水流非常危险，即便是当地渔民也很少来到这里撒网捕鱼。

最近，他在旅游企业家阿尔瓦罗‧塞雷佐（Alvaro Cerezo）的帮助下，终于可以回到他想念已久的小岛做最后的告别。得知这个消息时，长崎激动得泪流满面。塞雷佐经营一家旅游公司，主营业务是带领游客到荒岛上体验短暂的休闲生活。

「我带去的客户通常会在荒岛上独自待上两个星期，最长不超过五个星期。但是长崎竟然在那里待了29年！」塞雷佐告诉《大纪元时报》，「他对我们来说就像一位英雄。他之前曾是一名摄影师，但他厌倦了城市过于紧张的生活。他适应能力比较差，性格也比较古怪，不太好相处。」

其实，长崎也曾结过婚，并且有两个孩子。最初，他只打算在岛上住上几年，但后来因为太喜欢这里的生活方式，便决定永远留在这里，而且家人也接受了他的选择。

尽管长崎在岛上的生活无人拘束，但他却非常自律。早晨他会在海滩上晨练，之后他会清理营地避免被蚊虫叮咬，但大部分时间都在寻找食物，并用水桶收集雨水，加热后用来洗澡。除了用来生火的打火机之外，他没有任何其它现代工具。

他还会穿好衣服，驾着自己的一艘小船到附近的一个村庄，用儿子寄给他的钱购买食物和水。虽然岛上只有他一个人，但他说自己从来没有感觉到无聊或孤独，反而过得非常开心；岛上经常刮台风，他也从未受过伤或生过病。

直到2018年，当地一位渔民发现长崎躺在海滩上几乎失去知觉，他的故事才被媒体首次曝光。自此，老人被迫离开该岛，回到日本石垣市，住在政府资助的一个房间里，重新适应文明社会，同时当局拒绝他再回到岛上的要求。

由于长久的与世隔绝，老人很难交到朋友，他也不会使用现代设备，每天到街上捡捡垃圾。在文明社会生活的四年里，长崎大部分时间都待在房间里，远离喧嚣的世界。