A lawmaker of the minor conservative Liberty Forward Party has urged Japan to return some 100-thousand Korean cultural artifacts.

Park Sun-young is especially insistent on the matter this year, which marks the centennial anniversary of Japan’s annexation of Korea.

Park says that in a 1965 agreement on bilateral cultural artifacts and cultural collaboration, Japan clearly said it would return Korean artifacts mentioned there. The time limit set in the agreement was within six months after the agreement took effect, but she says Tokyo has not kept its promise.

Park says indifference by Japanese authorities are preventing the return of Korean cultural relics more than a century after they were taken. She urged a strong effort by the Korean Foreign Ministry to get them back.

One of the artifacts is the Joseon Uigwe (photo), a set of protocols on royal court life in the Joseon Dynasty.