The UNESCO World Heritage committee has decided to register Japan’s controversial Sado gold mine as a cultural heritage site after the country agreed to include it in an exhibit about its dark history of abusing wartime Korean laborers. The decision Saturday is a sign of improving ties between Tokyo and Seoul.
“Doyu-no-warito,” a symbol of the Sado gold mine complex, is seen in Sado, Niigata prefecture, Japan , on April 23, 2024. The sign reads “Doyu-no-warito.” The UNESCO World Heritage committee on Saturday, July 27, 2024 decided to register Japan ’s controversial Sado gold mine as a cultural heritage site after the country agreed to include it in an exhibit of its dark history of abusing Korean laborers during World War II.
Japan acknowledged that Koreans were put to more dangerous tasks in the mine shaft, which caused some to die. Many of them were also given meager food rations and nearly no days off.Anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson arrested in Greenland. He faces possible extradition to JapanA memorial service for all the workers at the Sado Island gold mines will be held annually at the site, Japanese officials said.
Historians say Japan used hundreds of thousands of Korean laborers, including those forcibly brought from the Korean Peninsula, at Japanese mines and factories to make up for labor shortages, as most working-age men were sent to battlefronts across Asia and the Pacific. Sado was among them.
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