The Korean government's boycott of a memorial service held on Sado island in Japan on Sunday for Koreans forced into labor in gold mines on the island during its colonial rule of Korea stemmed from ...

Lost opportunity Korea must press Japan's on forced labor. A planned memorial to jointly honor the sacrifices of forced wartime laborers, including Koreans, ultimately fell throug ...

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

South Korea has paid tribute to wartime Korean forced laborers at Japan’s Sado gold mines in a memorial ceremony ...

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

Kyodo News mistakenly reported in Japanese that House of Councillors member Akiko Ikuina visited the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15, 2022, when she did not in fact attend. In coverage ...

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

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

South Korea held a memorial event in Japan on Monday for its labourers forced to work at a controversial mine during World War Two, after boycotting one organised by Tokyo, highlighting lingering ...

Japan will hold a memorial ceremony near the Sado Island Gold Mines, which were listed this summer as a UNESCO World Heritage ...

A Japanese mayor said it is "extremely regrettable" that South Korea pulled out of a memorial ceremony Sunday to honour wartime forced labour victims, local media reported.

Japan’s government said on Friday that Akiko Ikuina — a parliamentary vice minister who reportedly visited Tokyo’s ...