This literature review discusses the connections between space, memory and cultural practice from several standpoints. In this light, it is important to reconsider heritage interpretation as way of bringing international stakeholders to correspond with one another and taking accountabilities together rather than drawing or presenting conclusions. It requires that the stakeholders unfold heritage interpretation as dialogical processes in the context of advancing global accountability and acknowledge how uneven history of globalization itself has become a specific driving of human history. Heritage interpretation is simultaneously for finding closure to historical trauma and to pave way for reconciliation and a future relationship. It demonstrates how heritage interpretation over contested heritage should be reconsidered carefully in terms of its objectives, scope and approaches. How can World Heritage Sites contribute to the historical process of reconciliation? How can the conversation over reconciliation be taken into account in interpreting related World Heritage Sites? This essay aims to answer the questions in proposing a dialogical approach to heritage interpretation. With the case ongoing, Japan’s most recent move to submit the case of the Sato gold mine (Niigata Prefecture, Japan) - another site where Koreans were forced to work - as a candidate for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List, has, again, intensified the existing history war and prevented heritage from being a way of interpretation and reconciliation for peace. Nevertheless, the interpretation over contested heritage can itself become new source of contestation if it is delivered as a one-side presentation rather than as resulting from a communication, such as the recent debates over the case of the “Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution” between Japan and Korea. Heritage is a way of interpretation and has increasingly become an important one when global heritage fever has increased in the recent years. Interpretation of the past is never easy.
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