Japan’s Heritage Sites: The Center of International Conflict

Northeast Asian History Foundation | April 28, 2023 | 152 pages |  ISBN 978-89-6187-799-2 l Not for sale

Contents

INTRODUCTION

Ⅰ. THE WORLD HERITAGE SYSTEM AND DISPUTES

- World Heritage, Why and for What Purpose?

Dongjin Kang, Professor, Kyungsung University

- Inscription of World Heritage Sites Overseas: Conflict and Reconciliation

Yeonkyung Lee, Professor, Incheon National University

- UNESCO World Heritage Sites at the Center of International Disputes. How Can They Be Resolved?

Hyunkyung Lee, Research Professor, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

Ⅱ. JAPAN’S WORLD HERITAGE AND FORCED MOBILIZATION

- Pressure for Recognition of the Legacy of War and Forced

Mobilization at Japan’s Meiji Industrial Heritage Sites

Youngsuk Kim, Research Fellow, NAHF

- Japan’s Push to List Sites Linked to Forced Labor as World Heritage Sites: Updates and Issues

Gun Cho, Research Fellow, NAHF

- The Sado Complex of Heritage Mines: A Site for Testing “Full History” and Common Sense of Human Rights

Hyegyeong Jeong, Leading Researcher, Peace Study Society on Forced

Mobilization of Koreans by Imperial Japan