After boycotting one organised by Tokyo, South Korea held its own memorial event on Monday for compatriots forced to work in ...

South Korea paid tribute to wartime Korean forced laborers at Japan’s Sado Island Gold Mines in a memorial ceremony on Monday ...

Japanese officials on Sunday paid tribute to workers at the country's Sado Island Gold Mines but offered no apology over ...

Kyodo News mistakenly reported in Japanese that House of Councillors member Akiko Ikuina visited the war-linked Yasukuni ...

S/ Hayashi Yoshimasa, Chief Cabinet Secretary / I understand that Parliamentary Vice Minister Ikuina did not visit ...

Anchor: South Korea held a memorial on Monday to honor Koreans subjected to forced labor under Japanese colonial rule at the Sado mines, the newly listed UNESCO World Heritage ...

A memorial service for Korean laborers forcibly mobilized to the Sado mines, which Japan had promised to hold annually ...

The Japanese government has decided to have Akiko Ikuina, a foreign ministry official, attend the Sado mine memorial ceremony. It is controversial because he is a far-right figure with a history ...

By allowing the mine complex to be registered as a World Heritage site without demanding proper identification of the use of forced labor, Korea’s government set itself up to fail ...

Akiko Ikuina, parliamentary vice minister at Japan's Foreign Ministry, will attend the Sado gold mine memorial ceremony on Sunday to commemorate wartime forced labor victims there, Japan's ...