For one thing, it is helping to extend the life of Japan’s sole commercial gold mine, a pit that miners first began digging out by hand in the feudal Edo Period (1603-1867). The ore from the ...

SADO, Japan (AP) — 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 ...

Japan has agreed to acknowledge the history of wartime Korean labor at the Sado gold and silver mine in Niigata Prefecture as part of its efforts to gain UNESCO World Cultural Heritage listing ...

Japanese trading companies have emerged as big winners from lingering mistrust between Australia and China, using the rift to ...

Japan announced Wednesday it will hold the memorial event to commemorate the victims from the Sado gold and silver mine complex, fulfilling its pledge to hold such a ceremony as a condition for ...