A UNESCO advisory body stopped short of recommending listing gold and silver mines on Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture as a World Heritage site and requested additional information. The Agency for ...

Sado, Niigata Pref. – The first thing you notice alighting from the ferry at Ryotsu on Sado Island is the absence of convenience stores. This generates a modern sense of the despair doubtless felt by ...

Japan’s Sado Island gold mine formally gained World Cultural Heritage status during a meeting of the World Heritage Committee ...

SADO, Japan (AP) — Japanese officials on Sunday paid tribute to workers at the country's Sado Island Gold Mines but offered no apology over Japan’s brutal wartime use of Korean forced laborers, ...

The Unesco World Heritage committee on Saturday decided to register Japan’s controversial Sado gold mine as a cultural heritage site after the country agreed to include it in an exhibit of its dark ...

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TOKYO — The UNESCO World Heritage committee on Saturday decided to register Japan’s controversial Sado gold mine as a cultural heritage site after the country agreed to include it in an exhibit of its ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — The UNESCO World Heritage ...