Japan won't consider South Korean opposition in Sado heritage push

Japan will not consider South Korean opposition in deciding whether to push ahead with a plan to nominate a gold and silver mine site on Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture for the 2023 UNESCO World Heritage list, Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said Monday.Hayashi made the remarks after South Korea said it was deplorable that a Japanese state cultural body had recommended that Tokyo seek listing of the mine, where Koreans were subject to forced labor during Japan's 1910-1945 colonization of the Korean Peninsula, and called for immediate retraction of the plan."We are not giving any diplom…READ FULL ARTICLE