Editing Sea of Japan naming dispute (section)

====Arguments from South Korea====
According to South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the name East Sea (Donghae(동해)) can be found in various historical records produced in the span of over 2,000 years, including the ''[[Samguk Sagi|History of the Three Kingdoms]]'' (1145),<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.koreaworldtimes.com/topics/news/8195/|script-title=ja:トンヘ（東海）の呼称歴史は2000年？ 2千年前発祥説が多い韓国|newspaper=KoreaWorldTimes |date=2020-11-23|language=ja|access-date=2021-09-27}}</ref> the monument of [[King Gwanggaeto]] (414), and "Map of Eight Provinces of Korea" ({{Langx|ko|八道總圖|label=none}}, 1530).<ref name="km1">{{cite web|title=East Sea|url=http://www.mofat.go.kr/english/political/hotissues/eastsea/index.jsp
|publisher=[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (South Korea)|South Korea Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade]]|year=2010 |access-date=21 November 2010}}</ref> According to such records, the name East Sea is almost 1,700 years older than the first documented world map to name the area the Sea of Japan, the ''[[Kunyu Wanguo Quantu]]'' (坤輿萬國全圖), which was drawn by the Italian missionary [[Matteo Ricci]] in China (1602). No Japanese record published up to the late-18th century indicated any name for the body of water.<ref name="NEHF">{{cite web|title=Naming of the East Sea|url=http://english.historyfoundation.or.kr/?sub_num=160|publisher=Northeast Asian History Foundation|year=2007|access-date=22 November 2010|archive-date=15 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110815174553/http://english.historyfoundation.or.kr/?sub_num=160|url-status=dead}}</ref> Furthermore, South Korea has pointed out that Japan itself recognized the sea as Sea of Joseon (Korea) not Sea of Japan since some 18th and 19th-century Japanese maps referred to the sea as Chōsenkai (朝鮮海, literally Sea of Joseon), including the {{Nihongo|Simplified Map of Japan's Periphery|日本邊界略圖|4=1809}}, Map of Asia (亞細亞全圖, 1794) which was drawn by Katsuragawa Hoshu (桂川甫周) and the {{Nihongo|New World Map|新製輿地全圖|4=1844}}.<ref name = km1/>  Additionally, it specifically states that the name Sea of Japan was not widely used, even in Japan, as late as the mid 19th century.<ref name="legitimacy">{{cite web|title=Legitimacy for Restoring the Name East Sea|url=http://www.mofat.go.kr/english/political/images/res/east_sea.pdf|publisher=[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (South Korea)|South Korea Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade]]|date=May 2009 |access-date=28 September 2010}}</ref> Moreover, South Korea argues that it was unable to present its case for the name 'East Sea' internationally because it was under Japan's colonial rule and in the midst of the Korean War.<ref name="WorkingPaper48">{{cite web|title=Recent Changes in Geographical Names of Korean Cities and other Developments|url=https://www.un.org/depts/dhl/maplib/ungegn/session-20/working-papers/working-paper-48.pdf|work=Working Paper 48 of the UNGEGN Twentieth Session|publisher=[[United Nations]]|date=17–28 January 2000|access-date=22 November 2010}}</ref> In 1992, the name "East Sea" was agreed upon as English name for the sea in South Korea and claimed by the country for the sea during its participation in the U.N. Conference on Standardization of Geographical Names.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2010-05-23|title=[East Sea (1)] East Sea/Sea of Japan, what is the problem?|url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20100520000904|access-date=2021-03-29|website=[[The Korea Herald]]|language=en}}</ref>