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.
Japanese officials on Sunday paid tribute to workers at the country's Sado Island Gold Mines but offered no apology over ...
South Korea has paid tribute to wartime Korean forced laborers at Japan's Sado gold mines in a memorial ceremony.
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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 ...
Efforts by South Korea and Japan to hold a joint memorial service near Japa’s Sado Island Gold Mines, where Koreans were ...
South Korea’s government says it has decided not to attend a memorial service near Japan’s Sado Island Gold Mines due to ...
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 ...
South Korea’s decision not to participate in what was envisioned an a moment of reconciliation highlighted the perceived lack ...
Japan commemorates workers who died at the Sado Island Gold Mines, now a UNESCO World Heritage site. The ceremony acknowledges Korean labourers' suffering but does not offer an apology, reigniting ...
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