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 ...

The South Korean government has decided not to attend for the third consecutive year the memorial ceremony for the Sado Mine hosted by Japan, scheduled to take place on September 12 in Sado City, ...

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

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

The Japanese government has published a World Heritage guidebook that excludes historical wrongdoing, running counter to the promise it made when modern industrial facilities were inscribed on the ...

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, ...

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

The Japanese government has published a promotional booklet on its UNESCO World Heritage sites, once again omitting the history of forced labor while introducing the Sado mine.

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 ...