Japan has held a memorial ceremony near the Sado Island Gold Mines despite a last-minute boycott of the event by South Korea that highlighted tensions between the neighbors over the brutal wartime ...

Experts are divided on whether the boycott of a memorial ceremony that did not mention Korean forced labor will go down as a turning point in the current administration’s policies toward Japan ...

A memorial ceremony honouring forced labour victims, including Koreans, at an old Japanese mine complex kicked off on Sunday ...

Japan was set to go ahead with a memorial ceremony Sunday near the Sado Island Gold Mines, despite South Korea’s last-minute ...

Japan held a memorial ceremony on Sunday near the Sado Island Gold Mines despite a last-minute boycott of the event by South ...

Japan will go ahead with a memorial ceremony on Sunday near the Sado Island Gold Mines, despite South Korea’s last-minute ...

But she did not acknowledge their forced labor or Japan's colonization of the Korean Peninsula. There has been speculation that the South Korean boycott might have been because of Ikuina's past ...

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PHOTOS: Japan holds Sado mines memorial despite South Korean boycott amid lingering historical tensions At Sunday’s ceremony, four Japanese representatives, including central and local ...