Editing Sea of Japan naming dispute (section)

====Arguments from Japan====
The Japanese government claims that the name Sea of Japan had been internationally used since the 17th century and established by the early 19th century, during which Japan was under an isolationist policy ([[Sakoku]]) of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] that restricted cultural exchange and commerce with foreign countries except China and the Netherlands until 1854.<ref name="MOFARussianFederationstudy">{{cite web|title=Issue of naming of the Sea of Japan (Study in the Russian Federation) Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) of Japan|url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/maritime/japan/study-6.html|publisher=[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan)|Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan]]|year=2010 |access-date=22 November 2010}}</ref><ref name="Basic Position">{{cite web | url = http://www1.kaiho.mlit.go.jp/GIJUTSUKOKUSAI/nihonkai/position_eng.htm | title = Japanese Basic Position on the Naming of the "Japan Sea" | publisher = [[Japan Coast Guard]] | date = 1 March 2005 | access-date = 22 November 2010 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110524092704/http://www1.kaiho.mlit.go.jp/GIJUTSUKOKUSAI/nihonkai/position_eng.htm | archive-date = 24 May 2011 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> Accordingly, they state, Japan could not have, at that time, had an influence on the international community regarding the naming of the sea.<ref name="Basic Position"/>

The invention of the [[marine chronometer]] in the late 18th century enabled Western explorers, such as [[Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse|Jean-François de Galaup]] from France, [[William Robert Broughton]] from Britain, and [[Adam Johann von Krusenstern]] (Ivan Fyodorovich Kruzenshtern) from Russia, to measure time and longitudes on the sea precisely and map the detailed shape of the Sea of Japan.<ref name="Basic Position"/> Krusenstern was an [[Russian Admiral|admiral]] and [[List of Russian explorers|explorer]], who led the [[first Russian circumnavigation]] of the [[Earth|globe]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Adam Johann von Krusenstern |title=Voyage Round the World |year=1813 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SgXVHAAACAAJ }}{{Dead link|date=August 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> According to Japanese records, it was Krusenstern who popularized the name "Mer du Japon" (Sea of Japan) in the West. In his work "Reise um die Welt in den Jahren" (1812), he wrote, "People also call this sea area the Sea of Korea, but because only a small part of this sea touches the Korean coast, it is better to name it the Sea of Japan."<ref name="Basic Position"/> The original book was published in [[St. Petersburg]] in German and Russian, translated into Dutch, French, Swedish, Italian, and English, and distributed widely among Europe.<ref name="Basic Position"/> As a result, the international name of the sea changed from no name to the Sea of Japan, on the maps drawn by countries other than Japan or Korea during the 17th to 20th centuries.<ref name="Basic Position"/> Thus, the Japanese side argues that the South Koreans misunderstand the history of the name.