Russia has criticized Japan's efforts to inscribe the Sado mine as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and said it opposes it.
Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a regular briefing on the 9th local time that Russia is paying attention to the issue, according to Ria Novosti news agency, and she insisted that UNESCO reject the nomination for the World Heritage List.
"I understand the reaction on the Korean side," he said. "It seems that Japan is continuing to take measures against Korea and other countries to erase from human memory the crimes committed by Japanese leaders during World War II." .
“It is difficult to understand how one can deny the historical facts about the barbarism of the Japanese militarists at the time, and the fact that militaristic Japan mobilized many people as forced labor in the mines in the countries it colonized,” she said.
The Sado mine is a site where many Koreans were mobilized and subjected to harsh labor during the Japanese colonial period.
The Japanese government submitted a recommendation letter to UNESCO on the 1st to register the Sado mine as a World Heritage Site.