Will Forced Labor Be Erased Again? Japan Pushes for Ashio to Be World Heritage Following Hashima and Sado

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(Tokyo=Yonhap News) Correspondent Cho Seong-mi = The Japanese government is breaking its promise made at the time of the Sado Mine's World Heritage designation and failing to properly disclose the fact that forced labor of Koreans took place...

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Evidence has emerged that the Japanese government is preparing to register a mine where Korean forced labor took place as a World Heritage Site. Critics point out that, following the Sado Mine case, the government is once again attempting to erase the fact of Korean forced labor while highlighting only the heritage of Japan's Industrial Revolution. According to the UNESCO World Heritage International Interpretation and Explanation Centre (WHIPI…