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Allied and Korean Forced Labor at the Aso Mining Company and Japan-South Korea Relations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Kim Hyo-sun
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A story broke last week that was noted by the foreign media but not dealt with in great detail in South Korea. The Japanese government acknowledged “for the first time” that in the late stages of the Pacific War, 300 Allied prisoners-of-war were forced into labor at a coal mine affiliated with Aso Mining, which has been run for generations by the family of Japanese Prime Minister Aso Taro.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 12 , December 2008 , e21
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