• The Hashima Coal Mine in Nagasaki Prefecture, known as 'Battleship Island' because of its shape, is one of the 23 sites spanning eight prefectures that were added to the World Cultural Heritage list in 2015 under 'Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining.' | KYODO
    The Hashima Coal Mine in Nagasaki Prefecture, known as "Battleship Island" because of its shape, is one of the 23 sites spanning eight prefectures that were added to the World Cultural Heritage list in 2015 under "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining." | KYODO

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SEOUL – South Korea is set to demand UNESCO remove historical sites related to Japan’s industrial revolution from its World Heritage list, South Korean media reported late Sunday.

The South Korean government has criticized a Tokyo exhibit introducing the Japanese sites, saying that it fails to show that Koreans were coerced to work at some of them during World War II despite a pledge by the Japanese government to make that fact clear.

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