(23 Nov 2024)
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Sado, Japan – 23 November 2024
1. Various of mannequins enacting mining in the the Sado Gold Mine during the Edo period (1603-1868) as part of a museum display
2. Visitors walking through tunnel
3. Woman looking at exhibit
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Sado, Japan – 22 November 2024
4. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Mari Arai, Sado City Council Member:
“For South Korea, to truly claim that this is worthy of being a World Heritage site, we must talk about the large group of laborers who were here — the Korean laborers who lived during the period of the Japan-Korea annexation and colonial era. If we count only from 1940 to 1945, there were over 1,500 people, but there were also others from before that period. Additionally, there were people who came as family members during that time, though they are not counted as laborers. So, in total, I believe the number easily exceeds 2,000.”
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Sado, Japan – 23 November 2024
5. Visitors walking through tunnel
6. Various of mannequins enacting mining in Sado Gold Mine during Edo period (1603-1868)
7. Visitors walking through tunnel
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Sado, Japan – 22 November 2024
8. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Mari Arai, Sado City Council Member:
"I believe it is important to record how those individuals, regardless of whether this place has been registered or not as a World Heritage site. But now there has been a commitment made to the international community to exhibit information about those people, I believe this issue should be addressed candidly. The South Korean government has pointed out that this has not been done here, and they have specifically requested that the exhibition be revised properly."
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Sado, Japan – 23 November 2024
9. Various of entrance to tunnel of Sado Gold Mine
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Hamamatsu, Japan – 22 November 2024
10. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Yasuto Takeuchi, expert on Japan’s wartime history:
“They do not acknowledge it as forced labour. They say the work conditions were harsh, but it was not forced. They say there were Koreans, but they also claim that the work was not forced. This is how it is currently being presented in the exhibition.”
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Sado, Japan – 23 November 2024
11. Visitor looking at exhibits on museum’s section on mine’s Edo era history
12. Gold coin from Edo era
13. Display of Edo era gold coins
14. Various of visitor trying to lift 12.5kg gold bar
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Hamamatsu, Japan – 22 November 2024
15. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Yasuto Takeuchi, expert on Japan’s wartime history:
"The main display is the history of the technology of the Sado Gold Mine, which is on the first floor. As for the second floor, in a room that most people don’t visit, there is an exhibition about the lives of laborers from the Korean Peninsula, presented under the category of ‘Korean Peninsula-born laborers.’ This is the current situation."
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Sado, Japan – 23 November 2024
16. Visitors walking walking through tunnel in museum section on mine’s Edo era history
17. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Yasuto Takeuchi, expert on Japan’s wartime history:
“They are glorifying the place as ‘the Sado Gold Mine’, as a product. They are making it look beautiful, and at the same time, justifying or rationalizing the history of the past.”
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Sado, Japan – 23 November 2024
18. Various of site of Kitazawa Flotation Plant relics lit up at night
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Hamamatsu, Japan – 22 November 2024
19. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Yasuto Takeuchi, expert on Japan’s wartime history:
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