Japan Sea renaned 'East Sea' Options

[JuMong]

HO proposes excluding name of Japan Sea on map

Friday, May 11, 2007 at 06:55 EDT

SEOUL — The International Hydrographic Organization proposed Thursday deleting the name of the sea between Korea and Japan in its upcoming oceanographic map amid controversy over the name of the waters between the them, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported. South and North Korea and Japan have been at odds for decades over how to name the sea, which South Korea refers to as the "East Sea," while Japan calls it the "Sea of Japan."

At the ongoing IHO general meeting being held in Monaco, David Wynford Williams, chairman of the meeting, proposed to the country representatives that the name of the sea in question could be completely omitted in the fourth edition of the IHO's oceanographic chart, the Yonhap report from Monaco said. The IHO published its first oceanographic chart for the region in 1929 and has since updated it three times, but in all of them, the East Sea was marked as the Sea of Japan.

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