Korea lost a Unesco vote to add Japan's Hashima Island issue to the agenda, failing to hold Japan accountable for its ...

South Korea on Tuesday called on UNESCO's heritage oversight body to step in if Japan continues to backtrack on its promise ...

A bid for a UNESCO World Heritage designation is the latest flash point between Japan and South Korea over Japanese colonial abuses during World War II. A gold and silver mine on Sado Island ...

It will be the third time that the United States leaves the Paris-based agency, and the second time during a Trump ...

The Government of Japan established a Funds-in-Trust to preserve the tangible cultural heritage such as historic monuments and archaeological remains of great value. The Japanese Funds-in-Trust for ...

In January, news that Japan had plans to nominate several gold and silver mines on Sado Island as a UNESCO World Heritage site sparked anger in South Korea, which remembers the site as something ...

Japan's Takehiro Kano, ambassador to UNESCO, reacts after sake, the traditional Japanese brewing, was named Intangible Cultural Heritage during an UNESCO World Heritage Convention in Asuncion ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says Japan will recommend a former gold mine on Sado Island for a UNESCO World Heritage list despite protests from South Korea that the site is inappropriate because ...

Mt. Fuji, Japan’s most iconic peak, will likely become the nation’s 17th UNESCO World Heritage site. Japan’s Sado Island Gold Mines Designated as UNESCO World Heritage Site With South Korea ...

SADO, Japan — Japanese officials have held a memorial ceremony near the Sado Island Gold Mines, listed in July as a UNESCO World Heritage site after Japan moved past years of historical disputes ...

South Korea will host its first U.N. World Heritage Convention summit in July 2026 after joining the convention in 1988, ...

Sake is perhaps more Japanese than the world-famous sushi. It's brewed in centuries-old mountaintop warehouses, savored in the country's pub-like izakayas, poured during weddings and served .