Japan's wartime facilities likely to be added to UNESCO list: reports
- 9 years ago
Title: Japan's wartime facilities likely to be added to UNESCO list: reports
We start this morning with a worrying development....
Japanese wartime facilities that housed enslaved laborers during World War Two are on the verge of being added to the highly-respected UNESCO World Heritage List.
Japanese media is reporting that UNESCO's advisory committee has recommended "Sites of Japan Meiji Industrial Revolution" in eight prefectures to be registered as World Cultural Heritage sites during its meeting to be held in Germany in July.
The 23 industrial sites include facilities in which tens of thousands of Koreans were forced to work during Japan's colonial rule of Korea.
As you would expect,... the Korean government is deeply opposed to the move, condemning Japan for seeking to portray its history of aggression as an industrial revolution without apology or remorse for the Koreans who suffered there.
We start this morning with a worrying development....
Japanese wartime facilities that housed enslaved laborers during World War Two are on the verge of being added to the highly-respected UNESCO World Heritage List.
Japanese media is reporting that UNESCO's advisory committee has recommended "Sites of Japan Meiji Industrial Revolution" in eight prefectures to be registered as World Cultural Heritage sites during its meeting to be held in Germany in July.
The 23 industrial sites include facilities in which tens of thousands of Koreans were forced to work during Japan's colonial rule of Korea.
As you would expect,... the Korean government is deeply opposed to the move, condemning Japan for seeking to portray its history of aggression as an industrial revolution without apology or remorse for the Koreans who suffered there.