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

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 ...

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

Japan's Kyodo news agency says its reporting in August 2022 of Japanese lawmaker Ikuina Akiko visiting Tokyo's Yasukuni ...

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

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 ...

SEOUL: The South Korean government plans to hold a separate on-site memorial ceremony for Koreans forced to work at the gold ...

South Korean sentiment over the event worsened after the Japanese government said this week it would send Akiko Ikuina, a ...

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

By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -After boycotting a memorial event organised by Tokyo, South Korea held its own on Monday to ...