This file photo taken Sept. 29, 2020, from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter shows the Hashima Coal Mine on Hashima Island, popularly known as "Battleship Island," off Nagasaki in southwestern Japan. (Mainichi)

       TOKYO (Kyodo) -- UNESCO's World Heritage Committee on Thursday adopted a resolution stating that Japan has failed to provide a sufficient explanation regarding the Korean victims of wartime forced labor at a Tokyo information center on industrial locations listed as World Cultural Heritage sites.

       The adoption of the resolution came during a virtual session of the committee that started on Friday.

       The resolution concerns the exhibition at the Industrial Heritage Information Center on the workers from Korea who were forced to work in the Hashima Coal Mine off Nagasaki, one of the 23 registered sites.

       The center featuring the locations grouped as Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution opened in Tokyo in 2020 with the support of the Japanese government, based on recommendations made by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization since 2015 when the sites were inscribed on the World Heritage list.

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