“Compelled conscription of Koreans at Sado Mine, Japanese native authorities additionally acknowledges”

2024-06-17 12:30:18

Asahi: “There are additionally information of ethnic discrimination”
Mainichi printed photographs of conscripted Koreans
“You’ll be able to’t make historical past occur prefer it by no means occurred.”

A photograph taken in entrance of the native coaching camp of Korean employees conscripted to the Sado Mine in Niigata Prefecture, Japan in 1941. Taeho Lim (face picture) was conscripted and compelled to work in 1940, however escaped simply earlier than the tip of World Battle II. Photograph supply: Japanese Korean Residing Tradition Museum web site in Kawasaki, Japan

Relating to the Sado Mine in Niigata Prefecture, which Japan is looking for to register as a UNESCO World Heritage Web site, it was identified that the native authorities up to now additionally acknowledged the pressured conscription of Koreans through the Japanese colonial interval.

On the fifteenth, the Asahi Shimbun mentioned in a column titled ‘Sado Mine PR, how far are the details?’, “The ‘Historical past of Niigata Prefecture,’ printed by Niigata Prefecture in 1988, writes that Koreans have been forcibly taken to work in Sado.”

In response to the Asahi Shimbun, in Niigata Prefecture’s ‘Historical past of Niigata Prefecture’ printed in 1988, there’s a description that “The labor mobilization plan that started in 1939 modified to recruitment, official placement, and conscription, however the truth that it forcibly conscripted Koreans was the identical.” In response to knowledge left by Sado Mines, a complete of 1,005 Koreans have been mobilized six instances between February 1940 and March 1942, and lots of Koreans have been taken earlier than and after that. It began within the Chungcheongnam-do area and expanded to your complete Korean Peninsula, together with Gyeongbuk and Jeonnam.

Mitsubishi Mining, which operated the Sado Mine, “didn’t even attempt to disguise its blatant view of the ‘inferior nationality’” towards Koreans, “managers who didn’t let down the reins have been vital,” and “some individuals ran away in dissatisfaction with ethnically discriminatory wages,” which have been prevalent on the time. It additionally left a report of discrimination.

The Mainichi Shimbun additionally reported on the sixteenth a photograph of Korean employees on the Sado Mine launched by the ‘Korea Residing and Tradition Museum in Japan’, a civic group in Kawasaki Metropolis. The picture exhibits Lim Tae-ho, a local of Nonsan-gun, South Chungcheong Province (at present Nonsan-si), who was conscripted to work on the Sado Mine in 1940 and was dwelling together with his Korean colleagues in a labor camp. Mr. Lim, who fled from Sado simply earlier than the defeat in World Battle II, lived as a Korean in Japan and handed away in 1997.

The civic group mentioned that the Koreans who labored in Sado got here to the mine within the type of ‘recruitment’ within the type of a contract, however they used the expression ‘conscription’ contemplating that they may not arbitrarily refuse Japan’s request on the time. Mainichi emphasised the significance of dealing with painful historical past head-on, saying, “The historical past of hardships suffered by Korean employees and their households, together with Mr. Lim, in Sado should not be handled as one thing that by no means occurred.”

The choice on whether or not to register the Sado Mine as a World Heritage Web site will likely be made on the UNESCO World Heritage Committee held in New Delhi, India on the twenty first of subsequent month (native time).

Tokyo = Correspondent Lee Sang-hoon [email protected]

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