A government investigation has found that during the Japanese colonial rule of Korea, up to 30-thousand Koreans were forced into labor by Japan on Sakhalin, an island now belonging to Russia and that a third of them never returned.
The Truth Commission on Forced Mobilization under Japanese Imperialism said in a report on Tuesday that, while it was previously thought that around 43-thousand Korean people were taken to Sakhalin, considering that about 70-percent of Korea's population at the time was male, the figure is probably closer to 30-thousand.
Of all the cases examined by the commission on Sakhalin, in 34.3 percent of them involved a person who died or went missing there, a rate much higher than other regions where Japan used conscripted Korean labor.
JAN 28, 2011 |
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