Comments on: Sea of Japan

By: Segawa

Segawa — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 06:32:21 +0000

I had never known this was a sensitive issue ever since I was born in Japan until recently. Although I believe S. Korea has to be the most significant partner to Japan in many respects, I dislike how there have been always many Koreans who are oversensitive to Japanese in terms of diplomatic matters and other matters. It is not until the 1990s that, as our recession had got worse and worse, some socioeconomically weak Japanese had also started oversensitive, too. If you major in history, foreign refashions, or whatever, I recommend, you should be more impartial, avoiding viewing the world from your cultural background alone.

By: Nomadism

Nomadism — Fri, 06 May 2005 08:00:24 +0000

I guess, that the problem with the “East Sea / Sea of Japan” is not simply confined to an issue of naming. I believe The reason that the Koreans (and the Japanese?) are so sensitive with that name is because the Koreans have a unclarified, harsh past experience with Japan.
If, the Koreans and Japanese were in good terms like the current England and French, and they two countries had somehow solved their past issue… No. I don’t think that the name of a sea in the middle of the two countries would be such a big deal.

By: Satsuma

Satsuma — Wed, 04 May 2005 11:12:20 +0000

With western Europe being so friendly nowadays it’s not the same issue but I have heard the French complain about the use of ‘The English Channel.’ Who is it who calls the North Sea the German sea?