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

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

The other sites are: Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution which encompasses a series of eleven properties, mainly located in the southwest of Japan. It bears testimony to the rapid ...

Continuities in this transition such as: Proto-industrialization in the Tokugawa era sets the stage for Meiji industrial development. The elite samurai remain in leadership, wielding power behind the ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Monday it hopes to strike a deal over Japan's campaign to put 23 Meiji Industrial ...

The Hashima Coal Mine, located on a tiny speck of rock popularly known as “Battleship Island,” is part of the “Sites of the Meiji Industrial Revolution,” which was designated as a UNESCO ...

The exhibition is “the Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining.” The dispute has been caused by Japan’s failure to provide sufficient ...

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 ...