A civic group is leading the effort, seeking to honour the victims and provide closure for their families Eighty-three years after a devastating flood in the Chosei coal mine in southern Japan claimed ...

On Feb. 3, 1942, the Chosei coal mine was submerged by an abnormal flood, killing 136 people from the Korean Peninsula and 47 Japanese who were working in the mine shaft. Last year, the civic ...

Below two shafts sticking out of the Seto Inland Sea, the remains of 136 people from the Korean Peninsula and 47 Japanese nationals still lie in the flooded Chosei coal mine in Ube. On Feb. 3 ...

SADO, Niigata Prefecture--Japan was set to go ahead with a memorial ceremony Sunday near the Sado Island Gold Mines, despite South Korea’s last-minute boycott of the event that highlighted ...

The mines gained UNESCO World Heritage status in July after negotiations between the two countries. South Korea accepted the listing after Japan agreed to install an exhibit explaining the harsh ...

Eighty-three years after a devastating flood in the Chosei coal mine in southern Japan claimed the lives of 183 miners, a lone cave diver is set to explore the mine’s murky depths, hoping to ...