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Japan’s Sado Gold Mine - UNESCO Status
August 2 , 2024
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- The UNESCO World Heritage committee decided to register Japan's controversial Sado gold mine as a cultural heritage site.
- For this, Japan agreed to include it in an exhibit of its dark history of abusing Korean labourers during World War II.
- The mine on an island off the coast of Niigata in northern Japan operated for nearly 400 years.
- It was the world's largest gold producer before closing in 1989.
- Seoul has said some Koreans brought to Japan during its 1910-1945 colonization of the Korean Peninsula were put to forced labour at the mine.
- Another controversial Japanese site was granted UNESCO recognition in 2015.
- Gunkanjima, or Battleship Island, in Nagasaki prefecture, was a former coal mine site recognised as important to the Meiji Industrial Revolution in Japan.
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