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

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

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

Kyodo News mistakenly reported in Japanese that House of Councillors member Akiko Ikuina visited the war-linked Yasukuni ...

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

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

Parliamentary Vice Foreign Minister Akiko Ikuina attends a memorial event held on Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture and makes a speech on Nov. 24, 2024. (Kyodo) NIIGATA (Kyodo) -- An event to ...

S/ Hayashi Yoshimasa, Chief Cabinet Secretary / I understand that Parliamentary Vice Minister Ikuina did not visit ...

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.

Seoul’s abrupt reversal comes amid a growing domestic backlash over the choice of Akiko Ikuina, a parliamentary vice minister at Japan’s Foreign Ministry, as the chief government delegate for ...

[Anchor] The Japanese government has decided to have Akiko Ikuina, a foreign ministry official, attend the Sado mine memorial ceremony. It is controversial because he is a far-right figure with a ...