Japan holds first memorial for 'all workers' at Sado gold mines but blurs WWII atrocity. Why?
SADO, Japan (AP) — Japanese officials have held a memorial ceremony near the Sado Island Gold Mines, listed in July as a UNESCO World Heritage site after Japan moved past years of historical disputes with South Korea and reluctantly acknowledged the mines' dark history. However, it has not offered an apology.
Japan holds Sado mines memorial despite South Korean boycott amid lingering historical tensions
Japan held a memorial ceremony on Sunday near the Sado Island Gold Mines despite a last-minute boycott of the event by South Korea that highlighted tensions between the neighbors over the issue of Korean forced laborers at the site before and during World ...
Japan will hold Sado mines memorial despite South Korean boycott amid lingering historical tensions
The Sado mines were listed in July as a UNESCO World Heritage site after Japan moved past years of disputes with South Korea and reluctantly acknowledged the mines’ dark history, promising to hold an annual memorial service for all victims, including hundreds of Koreans who were mobilized to work in the mines.
SADO, Japan (AP) — South Korea commemorated wartime Korean forced laborers at Japan's Sado gold mines in a ceremony Monday, a day after boycotting a similar event organized by Japan, as ...
Japanese officials on Sunday paid tribute to workers at the country's Sado Island Gold Mines but offered no apology over ...
The foreign ministry said Monday that South Korea skipped Japan’s recent event to commemorate Japanese and Korean forced labor victims because Japan’s memorial speech fell ...
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Korea caught off guard by Japan on Sado mine issueA memorial service for Korean laborers forcibly mobilized to the Sado mines, which Japan had promised to hold annually ...
South Korea’s government says it has decided not to attend a memorial service near Japan’s Sado Island Gold Mines due to ...
Japan has agreed to acknowledge the history of wartime Korean labor at the Sado gold and silver mine in Niigata Prefecture as part of its efforts to gain UNESCO World Cultural Heritage listing ...
Efforts by South Korea and Japan to hold a joint memorial service near Japa’s Sado Island Gold Mines, where Koreans were ...
The Japanese government said Akiko Ikuina, a foreign ministry official, will attend the Sado mine memorial ceremony on the 24th. Political officers are equivalent to the level of vice ministers in ...
NEW DELHI--Japan’s Sado Island gold mine formally gained World Cultural Heritage status during a meeting of the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO here on July 27. The decision brings the ...
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