Movement to Turn the Area Around Chosei Coal Mine Into a Peace Park in Japan… "Must Also Make Known the Dark History"

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(Tokyo=Yonhap News) Correspondent Cho Seong-mi = A signature campaign across Japan to designate the area around the Chosei Coal Mine, where 136 Koreans and others were drowned in 1942, as a peace park...

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“Preserve Existing Remains to Develop into a Memorial and Educational Space”: A Japanese civic group has launched a nationwide signature campaign to develop the Chosei Coal Mine, steeped in the history of the forced mobilization of Koreans, into a peace park. The civic group, “Association for Engraving the Chosei Coal Mine Flooding Accident in History,” held a declaration ceremony for the signature campaign on the 21st at the mine entrance plaza…