The controversy was reignited after it was announced that Akiko Ikuina, a parliamentary vice minister at the Japanese Foreign Ministry, would represent Japan at the memorial ceremony. Some ...

President Yoon Suk-yeol has boycotted the mine's commemoration in Japan, purportedly over Tokyo's failure to recognise forced ...

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

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

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

Japan accepted, and on Sunday went ahead with a commemoration at Sado led by Parliamentary Vice Foreign Minister Akiko Ikuina ...

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi expressed disappointment over an erroneous report by Kyodo News that said Akiko Ikuina, parliamentary vice foreign minister, had visited Tokyo's Yasukuni ...

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

South Korean sentiment over the event worsened after the Japanese government said this week it would send Akiko Ikuina, a parliamentary vice minister, to the event. Ikuina had reportedly visited ...

None offered any apology to Korean forced laborers for the harsh treatment at the mines. Akiko Ikuina, a parliamentary vice minister, representing Japan's government, praised the craftsmanship of ...

Kyodo late on Monday issued an apology for what it said turned out to be an erroneous report that the official, Akiko Ikuina, now the parliamentary vice minister for foreign affairs, had visited ...