TAKASAKI, Gunma Prefecture—Workers began tearing down a memorial for wartime Korean laborers at a prefectural park here amid criticism that its removal would encourage attempts to whitewash ...
The Mikuni Road stretches from Takasaki in Gunma Prefecture to Teradomari, 200 kilometers to the north in Niigata Prefecture. Mt. Mikuni, 1,636 meters high, lies on the border between the two ...