• A tour boat departs June 29 from Hashima Island, commonly known as Gunkanjima ('Battleship Island'), off the city of Nagasaki. The island is one of 23 old industrial facilities that gained UNESCO recognition as world heritage 'Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution,' meant to illustrate Japan's rapid transformation from a feudal farming society into an industrial power at the end of the 19th century. | AP
    A tour boat departs June 29 from Hashima Island, commonly known as Gunkanjima ("Battleship Island"), off the city of Nagasaki. The island is one of 23 old industrial facilities that gained UNESCO recognition as world heritage "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution," meant to illustrate Japan's rapid transformation from a feudal farming society into an industrial power at the end of the 19th century. | AP
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Japan has won UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Status for 23 industrial sites after conceding to South Korea’s demand that the registration make clear that some of the locations used forced laborers from the Korean Peninsula.

But in their official remarks and statements, Japanese officials avoided using the phrase kyosei rodo (forced labor), and instead used hatarakasareta (were forced to work), which is a more colloquial Japanese expression.

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