Japan’s Sado Mines Listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site l KBS WORLD

Japan’s Sado mines, a controversial website linked to wartime compelled labor which included Koreans, has been designated as a World Heritage Web site, after guarantees from Tokyo to show historic info in regards to the complicated.

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee(WHC) accepted the inscription at its assembly in New Delhi, India on Saturday, with unanimous assist from its 21 member states. Each Korea and Japan are members of the rotating committee this 12 months.

Seoul had beforehand protested the designation for the previous gold and silver mines positioned on Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture, arguing that Japan initially supposed to gloss over the a part of its historical past involving Koreans who had been compelled to toil there throughout World Struggle II, when Korea was below Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule.

Takehiro Kano, Japan’s ambassador to UNESCO, disclosed throughout the assembly that Tokyo will honor its pledge made to the WHC and sincerely commemorates all laborers, together with these from the Korean Peninsula, who labored within the Sado Mines.

The Japanese diplomat said that Japan has, in an effort to resolve variations amongst committee members, already put in shows and exhibitions to element the tough circumstances below which the laborers had been compelled to work, at Aikawa People Museum, positioned 5 kilometers away from the mines.