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Japan's info center breaks pledge made to world
Japan's info center breaks pledge made to world
- Foreign ministry expresses regret over Japan not fulfilling pledge to UNESCO World Heritage
- Feb 03,2025
- Hashima (Battleship) Island in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. (Yonhap News) By Park Hye Ri The government has expressed deep regret over Japan not implementing follow-u...
- Foreign Ministry blasts Japan for denial of anti-Korean discrimination
- Dec 14,2022
- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Dec. 13 expressed regret over a Japanese government report to UNESCO repeatedly claiming that no discrimination against Koreans occurre...
- 🎧 Culture minister urges Japan to keep pledge on island's history
- Jul 29,2022
- Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Park Bo Gyoon on July 28 in a policy briefing to the National Assembly said, "Japan must first faithfully implement follow-up meas...
- Russia backs Korea's opposition to UNESCO bid for forced labor mines
- Feb 10,2022
- Russia has joined Korea in opposing Japan's bid to designate Sado Island's mines, where Koreans were forced to work during Japan's occupation of the Korean Peninsula, as ...
- Joint task force for Sado mine issue holds inaugural meeting
- Feb 04,2022
- The government on Feb. 4 held the inaugural meeting of a joint public-private task force to respond to Japan's planned nomination of Sado Island's mines for designation a...
- Gov't demands Japan stop UNESCO bid for Sado mines
- Dec 29,2021
- The government on Dec. 28 urged Japan to immediately retract its bid to have the Sado mine, where Koreans and POWs were forced to work during World War II, gain UNESCO Wo...
- Japanese scholars urge their gov't to come clean on forced labor history
- Aug 06,2021
- The Industrial Heritage Information Centre was opened in Tokyo in June last year. (Yonhap News) By Kim Eun-young and Yoon Sojung A group of Japanese intellectua...
- UNESCO resolution urges Japan to tell world of forced labor history
- Jul 23,2021
- UNESCO's World Heritage Committee on July 22 unanimously adopted a resolution expressing ''strong regrets'' over Japan's failure to take promised follow-up measures to in...
- UNESCO 'strongly regrets' distorted history at Tokyo info center
- Jul 13,2021
- UNESCO on July 12 said it "strongly regrets" Japan's Industrial Heritage Information Centre, which was opened in Tokyo in June last year, for not presenting the full hist...
- 1,299 Korean forced workers on Hashima were never paid: KBS
- Mar 31,2021
- A statue representing a Korean victim of forced work by Japan was set up on Aug. 12, 2017, at Yongsan Station Plaza in Seoul to raise awareness of Japan's war crime and c...