Japan had promised earlier to take steps to remember the victims, including many Koreans who were forced into hard labor, ...

The Japanese island of Hashima was closed in 1974 and fell into disrepair, but since the 2000s, it has been reborn as a ...

The government has expressed deep regret over Japan not implementing follow-up measures after listing the latter's modern ...

Japan has yet to make good on a promise made when Hashima Island, where Koreans were forcibly taken for labor during World War II, won the UNESCO World Heritage status in 2015.Japan's ...

Japan expressed its intention to implement appropriate measures so that the memory of those who perished at the Hashima coal mine would not be forgotten. In 2020, the government opened the ...