South Korea’s government says it has decided not to attend a memorial service near Japan’s Sado Island Gold Mines due to ...

Korean officials skipped Japan's memorial service held near the Sado mine site, Sunday, in an apparent protest against ...

The Japanese government said Akiko Ikuina, a foreign ministry official, will attend the Sado mine memorial ceremony on the 24th. Political officers are equivalent to the level of vice ministers in our ...

Japan announced Friday it will send a vice foreign minister to the upcoming memorial ceremony for wartime forced labor ...

However, none offered an apology to Korean forced laborers for the harsh conditions they endured at the mines. Akiko Ikuina, ...

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

Japan held a memorial ceremony on Sunday near the Sado Island Gold Mines, listed this summer as a UNESCO World Heritage site ...

Seoul announced Saturday it would not send officials to the mine memorial, after South Korean media criticised the participation of Akiko Ikuina, a parliamentary vice minister at Japan’s foreign ...

The Sado mines were listed in July as a UNESCO World Heritage site after Japan moved past years of disputes with South Korea ...

Akiko Ikuina, parliamentary vice minister at Japan's foreign ministry, will be at the ceremony, scheduled to take place on western Sado Island, off its west coast, on Sunday. Japan announced Wednesday ...

Akiko Ikuina, Japan's parliamentary vice-minister for foreign affairs, highlighted the symposium's profound significance in advancing constructive and stable Japan-China relations. "Both ...