Japan will go ahead with a memorial ceremony on Sunday near the Sado Island Gold Mines, despite South Korea’s last-minute ...

The Sado mines were listed in July as a UNESCO World Heritage site after Japan moved past years of disputes with South Korea ...

An event to commemorate Japanese and Korean laborers who worked at the gold and silver mine complex on Japan's Sado Island ...

A memorial ceremony honouring forced labour victims, including Koreans, at an old Japanese mine complex kicked off on Sunday as planned, with South Korea boycotting it over Tokyo's pick to send a ...

It is known that Japan will send a political officer equivalent to our vice minister level to the Sado Mine memorial ceremony, which is a forced labor site for Koreans. Although it seems to have ...

The ceremony will take place at the Aikawa Development Center on western Sado Island, off Japan's west coast, Sunday, the executive committee for the Sado mines memorial ceremony said. Korea's ...

One of Sado Island's gold mines (Niigata Prefecture Tourism Association) The first official memorial ceremony honoring Korean victims of forced labor at the gold mines on Sado Island during Japan ...

South Korea’s Foreign Ministry and Japan’s executive committee for the Sado Mine memorial jointly announced Wednesday that the event, officially titled the "Sado Mine Memorial Ceremony," will ...

Japan announced Wednesday that the ceremony will take place on western Sado Island, off its west coast, fulfilling its promise to host the event to honor the victims who were forced into hard ...