日本海 ｖｓ 東海より拝借
投稿者： spielmitsteinen 投稿日時： 2002/09/25 22:56 投稿番号： [87223 / 203793]
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Thank you for your reasoned and appealing letter. First, our map DOES show and name the Sea of Japan equally with the name East Sea. Remember, this is a map of Korea, not of East Asia, and only the coastline for about 10km shows on the map. Second, the United Nations does not name places. The UN is a diplomatic talking place, but has no authority where place names are concerned. The Japanese government likes to pretend that it does, for its own ends, but it is not true. Third, the UN has absolutely no jurisdiction over water names. This is governed by the International Hydrographic Association and this body has provisionally accepted the name East Sea as the proper name of this body of water. I agree that the name change is controversial and many people in Japan are upset about this, but name changes take place all the time. Saigon is now Ho Chi Minh City, Bombay is now Mumbai, and Rangoon is now Yongon. There have been over 10,000 place name changes in the world over the past ten years, mostly to eradicate the stigma of colonialism.
Personally, I do not agree with the name East Sea, as there are several East Seas in the world (off the coast of Vietnam, for example). The point is that the name Sea of Japan is extremely distasteful to millions of people to your immediate west and they associate that name with an extremely unpleasant part of their history. For the Korean people, the occupation and colonial domination by Japan brings up very unpleasant feelings. They are a proud people, as are the Japanese, and are deeply disturbed by anything that reminds them of this shameful period of their long history. Is it so unusual that they find the name Sea of Japan offensive and want to change it?
Thank you for your reasoned and appealing letter. First, our map DOES show and name the Sea of Japan equally with the name East Sea. Remember, this is a map of Korea, not of East Asia, and only the coastline for about 10km shows on the map. Second, the United Nations does not name places. The UN is a diplomatic talking place, but has no authority where place names are concerned. The Japanese government likes to pretend that it does, for its own ends, but it is not true. Third, the UN has absolutely no jurisdiction over water names. This is governed by the International Hydrographic Association and this body has provisionally accepted the name East Sea as the proper name of this body of water. I agree that the name change is controversial and many people in Japan are upset about this, but name changes take place all the time. Saigon is now Ho Chi Minh City, Bombay is now Mumbai, and Rangoon is now Yongon. There have been over 10,000 place name changes in the world over the past ten years, mostly to eradicate the stigma of colonialism.
Personally, I do not agree with the name East Sea, as there are several East Seas in the world (off the coast of Vietnam, for example). The point is that the name Sea of Japan is extremely distasteful to millions of people to your immediate west and they associate that name with an extremely unpleasant part of their history. For the Korean people, the occupation and colonial domination by Japan brings up very unpleasant feelings. They are a proud people, as are the Japanese, and are deeply disturbed by anything that reminds them of this shameful period of their long history. Is it so unusual that they find the name Sea of Japan offensive and want to change it?
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