East Sea vs
Sea of Japan
International
Hydrographic Organization(IHO)'s
recent decision is at issue.
IHO ,in charge of standardizing
names of sea area , announced
last month that IHO withdrew
plans to have its 72 members
states vote on weather to stop
calling the body of water between
korea and Japan by the name
" Sea of Japan ".
Related to IHO 's sudden
withdrawal, a strong suspicion
is brought up that there was
a crafty Japanese lobbying.
Moreover it is an unprecedented
event in the context of international
convention , IHO will be open
to censure.
In the
meantime, South Korea and Japan
are engaged in a fierce diplomatic
tug-of-war over how the waters
between Korea and Japan should
be named with draft guidelines
for the fourth edition of IHO
's publication "Limits
of Oceans and Seas " ahead.
"Limits of Oceans and Seas"
is an authoritative international
publication on oceanography,
Cartographers worldwide have
long accepted this book as the
authoritative reference on maritime
features. During the 1929 Monaco
Conference of IHO , the
preferential term for Japan
was officially recognized and
listed in the first edition
of " Limits of Oceans and
Seas " , which served as
the standard reference for geographical
features for decades to come.
Cartographers thus followed
its designation of the East
Sea as the Sea of Japan.
Korea
has insisted that When International
Hydrographic Conference was
opened in 1919, Korea failed
to attend the Conference because
korea was annexed by Japan.
So Korea could not submit any
opinion to IHO. As a result,
" East sea " have
thus far been marked as "
Sea of Japan " on every
marine chart and relevant world
maps including the book "
Limits of Oceans and Seas".
And they said " That's
why there is no recent map of
392 maps studied by Japan in
2000 that described the sea
using the name " East Sea
".(Japan investigated 392
maps that were available for
purchase by anyone in 60 countries,
in 2000)
And
from the 17th century to the
mid 19th century, many ancient
maps and hydrographic charts
shows that " East Sea "
or " Sea of Korea "
was extensively used in both
korea and Japan as well as in
western countries, so Japanese
assertion that "East Sea"
was used domestically and there
is no historical or geographical
basis for the use of the name
" East Sea " appears
strained. In accordance with
the general rule of international
cartography that naming the
sea is to call the name of the
sea by naming the country located
in the west of the particular
sea , " East Seas
" appears more
persuasive than "
Sea of Japan " , which
implies "Japanese ownership".
"The East China Sea "
and " The Tasmanian
Sea " are fine examples
of this rule.
Korean
government has demanded that
the sea should be renamed the
"East Sea" ever
since they brought this issue
to the attention of the world
at the sixth U.N. Conference
on the Standardization of Geographic
Names (UNCSGN). And VANK (Voluntary
Agency Network of Korea) has
sent protest e-mails to many
authoritative institutions and
organizations like CIA , National
Geographic , Lonely Planet ,
and ABOUT.COM asking that "East
Sea" should be used
instead of "Sea of Japan"
right away. Thus, National Geographic
and other map makers have changed
their maps as a result of the
onslaught. But " Sea of
Japan ", which was adopted
by the Japanese colonialists
, will likely remain because
of the recent IHO 's decision
by the crafty Japanese lobbying.
IHO 's decision , which goes
against the times , means that
they lost authority as an International
Organization , and IHO will
be open to censure from the
international community.
Below is an
article running in About.com
as a result of the Vank's onslaught.
http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa022402a.htm?terms=east+sea
Please contact
us if you have any Question
about Korea and Vank.
Vank [ Voluntary
Agency Network of Korea ]
605 ho Immanuel Building 372-49,
3-dong Sindang Jung-gu Seoul,
S.KOREA TEL. 82-2-752-1779
http://www.prkorea.org overseasnet@prkorea.org
¡Ø References
* University
of Southern California's (USC)
Korean Heritage Library.
http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/arc/libraries/eastasian/maps.html
* About.Com http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa022402a.htm?terms=east+sea
* EAST SEA FORUM http://www.eastsea.org/
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