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Japan promised to announce that there was a history of forced mobilization when the warship island, which had forced Korean youth to work during the Japanese colonial period, was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. However, after actually being registered, they continue to claim that there was no forced labor. Some analysts say that the Abe government is behind this.

For more details, reporters Choi Jae-young and Son Hyeong-an will deliver in turn.

<Reporter Choi Jae-young>

[Kuni Sato/Japanese Ambassador to UNESCO (2015, 39th World Heritage Committee): Many Koreans and other citizens were mobilized against their will at some facilities and were forced to labor under harsh conditions... .]

Japan recognized that there were forced mobilizations and forced labor on the island of warships when it was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

And I promised.

[Kuni Sato/Japanese Ambassador to UNESCO (2015, 39th World Heritage Committee): Take appropriate measures to commemorate the victims, such as establishing an information center... .]


And five years later, the professed Japanese Industrial Heritage Information Center opened in Tokyo.

[Hideki Yano / Attorney: (Japan Industrial Heritage Information Center) is a facility to give the impression that Japan did not force Koreans to be forced to mobilize or labor. It is a facility that denies history.] There

is only one-sided testimony that there was no forced mobilization or forced labor in this center.

[Sakae Matsuyama/Former warship residents: Because they are Koreans, because they are Japanese, there was no discrimination.]

<Reporter Son Hyeong-an>

However, this video can also be viewed on the website of a private organization.

There are also other Japanese claims that there was no forced mobilization.

[Namsang-gu/Northeast Asian History Foundation Korea-Japan History Research Institute: (Industrial Heritage National Assembly) is a private organization created to register modern industrial heritage as a world heritage.]

And you can find the name Kato Goko on this website.

[Nam Sang-gu/Northeast Asian History Foundation, Director of the Korean-Japanese History Research Institute: Director Goko Kato. I'm an industrial heritage producer... .]

Goko Kato, who also attended the UNESCO General Assembly in 2015, when Japan admitted to the forcible mobilization.

[Nam Sang-gu/Northeast Asian History Foundation, Director of the Korea-Japan History Research Institute: What Goko Kato has been doing is only to prove that there was no ethnic discrimination, no forced mobilization, denying what the Japanese government admitted.]

Goko Kato, of Japan I come from a famous political family.

[Hisatomo Kobayashi/Deputy Director of Forced Mobilization Network Secretariat: He is the eldest daughter of Kato Mutsuki, a giant politician who has served as a minister many times.] In

Japan, it is known that Abe has a strong relationship.

[Kobayashi, Hisashi Tomo / forced Truth Network Secretariat Deputy: You told that when Abe and rabbits goko met the Prime Minister Abe on the world heritage Gun 'This is what I'll tell you']

suspicions that Kato goko virtually operations The receiving organization actually received a lot of support from the Abe government.

About 5.6 billion won has been provided over the past 4 years.


[Hisatomo Kobayashi / Deputy Director of the Forced Mobilization Network Secretariat: (These are businesses that engage in general competitive bidding) None of the other corporate entities that are the opponents of the general competitive bidding have accepted the bidding.]

So Prime Minister Abe and the Japanese government Suspicion arises through close associates, whether or not the historical distortion is continuing.

[Nam Sang-gu/Northeast Asian History Foundation, Director of the Korea-Japan History Research Institute: When the problem of forced mobilization comes out, people will think. What did iron, ship, and coal made in a Japanese-made facility? Isn't it that it eventually became a weapon to invade neighboring countries? (The Abe government) doesn't want to relate to this story.] The

report team asked the Japanese Industrial Heritage Information Center several times by e-mail, fax, or phone if they would like to correct the distortion of the history, but no response was received.

(Video coverage: Lee Byeong-ju, Video editing: Jang Hyun-ki, VJ: Jeong Young-sam, Jeong Han-uk, Kim Cho-ah, CG: Hong Sung-yong, Choi Jae-young, Lee Ye-jeong)