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Media watch: Korean and Japanese groups set to excavate disaster site with or without the government’s permission

In February 2022, we posted a piece about the 1942 Chosei coal mine disaster in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, which killed 183 workers, 136 of them Koreans who had been brought to Japan. A local group was formed in 1991 and … Continue reading

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