Japan has formally resubmitted documents seeking to obtain UNESCO World Heritage recognition for a controversial former gold mine that has added to diplomatic frictions with South Korea over Japanese ...

Japan held a memorial ceremony Saturday near the Sado Island gold mine in Niigata Prefecture — a site where Koreans were ...

It will be the third consecutive year of South Korea’s absence from the memorial service, which honors workers at the ...

The South Korean government has decided not to attend for the third consecutive year the memorial ceremony for the Sado Mine ...

Korea will not attend Japan's memorial ceremony for victims of wartime forced labor at the Sado mine complex for the third ...

The Japanese government held the "Sado Mine Memorial Ceremony" near the Sado Mine in Niigata Prefecture, a site of forced ...

A memorial ceremony for laborers, including those from the Korean Peninsula, who worked at the gold and silver mine complex ...

Japan again stopped short of acknowledging the forced nature of Korean labor during a ceremony Saturday commemorating victims ...

An international heritage body has recommended that Japan take further steps to adequately reflect the "whole history" of the Sado mine World Heritage site, linked to the wartime mobilization of ...

The Sado Island Gold Mines in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, were officially inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2024 after South Korea agreed to support Japan's bid on the condition that Tokyo ...

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, ...