Japan risked derailing tentative moves to repair badly soured relations with South Korea by effectively brushing aside ...

SEOUL (THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - South Korea has prodded Japan to acknowledge the country's forced mobilisation of Koreans at several Unesco-listed world heritage sites in Japan, including ...

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has expressed strong concerns that the Japanese government is not doing enough to ...

On June 29, I attended a talk at Korea.net's Seoul office on Japan's distortion of history surrounding Korean victims of forced labor. Hosted by TV personality Jung Jaehwan and featuring novelist Han ...

The South Korean government's attempt to have UNESCO scrutinize whether Japan fulfilled its follow-up commitments regarding Hashima Island, a site of forced labor during the Japanese colonial era, ...

For the first time ever, Korea and Japan faced off in a vote at an international forum — the Unesco World Heritage Committee — over the issue of Japan's failure to acknowledge the history of forced ...

Nicknamed Gunkanjima, or Battleship Island, because of its shape, Hashima island has an eerie, sinister look, perfect for, say, a villain’s lair in an action movie. The inspiration for villain Raoul ...

The Battleship Island, a film narrating the story of a group of about 400 Korean workers who risked their lives to escape from their forced labor camp in Hashima during the Japanese colonial era, made ...

Hashima, an abandoned island that was once a thriving coal mining facility located off the coast of the southwestern Japanese port city Nagasaki, is getting a second lease on life as a Unesco World ...