Japan to rebut UNESCO request over Korean labor at World Heritage sites

Japan plans to rebut UNESCO's recommendations that the country should do more to explain about Korean victims of wartime forced labor at its Tokyo information center on industrial sites listed as World Cultural Heritage sites, government sources said Saturday.At UNESCO's World Heritage Committee session held from Friday to July 31, Japan plans to explain that its exhibition at the Industrial Heritage Information Center on workers from Korea forced to work in the Hashima Coal Mine off Nagasaki, one of the 23 registered sites, is based on historical facts and appropriate, the sources said.As …READ FULL ARTICLE