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Ⓒ Daily Central / Daily Central Japanese Version2020.11.18 07:50
Japan’s institutional basis for claiming Tokai as the “Sea of Japan” in the international community disappears. Until now, the International Inland Waterways Organization (IHO) marine map used to use the “Sea of Japan” only as a standard, but the new standard to be applied in the future will basically use numbers instead of names.
The IHO, which introduces standards for marine name notation to countries around the world, will use a new method to display unique identification numbers on standard digital marine maps in place of names like Tokai and Japan Sea at a general meeting held at a videoconference on the 16th. We decided to present S-130). The conventional IHO standard (S-233) describes the Tokai as the Sea of Japan alone, and the Japanese government has used this as a basis for stating that the Sea of Japan is the official name internationally, but these standards themselves themselves are virtually eliminated.
Lee Jae-eun, deputy spokesperson for the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said at a regular meeting on the 17th: “The name of the Sea of Japan claimed by Japan itself will be an international standard and a new framework will be prepared to expand the notation. Tokai. It was converted. “
In fact, it is true that South Korea has won a major “fight”, but the “war” is yet to come. This is because even if S-130 applies, attached to each identification number is “attribute information” that contains content specific to the sea area. There is a high possibility that the name is included in this attribute information. The real battle to expand the “Tokai” notation is yet to come.
The Japanese government claims to have kept the unique “Sea of Japan” notation. Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Mogi commented on the IHO General Assembly on this day that “the Sea of Japan remains on paper”. Secretary General Katsunobu Kato also noted that “the S-23 Guidelines, which have been using the ‘Sea of Japan’, are still publicly available as current IHO publications”.
It is not a technically incorrect word, but there is a great contradiction. IHO marine maps are no longer produced solely in digital format. It means that the paper publication itself becomes a fossil. However, Japan insists that “similarly, it is still the Sea of Japan.”
In fact, the dispute over the Tokai notation has been in favor of Japan. This is because, while the international standard is the Sea of Japan, it is no different from South Korea challenging the Tokai.
In particular, this was a proposal from the Secretary General of the IHO. It seems that the fact that the number of items in both Tokai and Japan Sea exceeds 40% has already been taken into account. Details regarding the S-130 will start from a blank slate for years to come, but diplomatic officials say it is not a disadvantage for South Korea given this background at first.
Rather, it is Japan that has lost the validity of the Sea of Japan notation that is impatient. Regarding this general meeting of the IHO, Korea has a chief representative (Yu Ki-jun, Director of the International Law Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and a commentator (Deputy Speaker of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lee Jae- eun) at the director level, but Japan has ministers and two What came out and explained can be seen as evidence of a sense of crisis.
However, the IHO only presents one standard, and it is the governments and publishers of each country that actually make a marine map using this. Japan is expected to actively work on the practical application of S-130 to guide the notation of the Sea of Japan. A Korean Foreign Ministry official said, “We will do our best to establish the Tokai notation.”
