From: xavier@kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Yuji KOMATSU)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.korean
Subject: Re: Sea of East, Korea, Japan.
Date: 7 Nov 92 04:19:26 GMT
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Organization: Dept. of Electr. Eng. II, Kyoto Univ., Japan
In-reply-to: ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu's message of 6 Nov 92 17:01:27 GMT


Hallo. This is Komatsu in Kyoto Univ. Sorry I've deleted some
references from the header.

Let me clear my discussing point.

I am discussing what `The Sea' was called originally by INTERNATIONAL,
not by Korans or Japanese.

Before early 19th century, both Korea and Japan closed their country,
so there was few possibility for international world to know what
Koreans or Japanese called `The Sea'. Besides it, few Koreans and few
Japanese knew how to navigate and could recognize the whole part of
`The Sea'. (In that era, only navigators could recognize the border of
the sea and could name for an unknown sea.  `Pacific' was named by
Ferdinando Magellan, not by Polynesian.)  So Koreans used very vague
expression `Tong-Hae' and Japanese used only for small parts of `The
Sea', off Niigata, off Hakata, Genkai-Nada, etc.

In about 18th or 19th century, which country, beside Korea or Japan,
had a biggest interest about `The Sea'? The answer is Russia. They
knew how to navigate and had some technologies of survey. They DID
name or call `The Sea' `Sea of Japan'. Perhaps Chinese might call `The
Sea' `Sea of Korea', but by some reasons Russians calling seems to
have been accepted internationally.

I don't mean to prevent Koreans from appealing to change the present
international calling of `The Sea'. I only wanted to clear what `The
Sea' was originally called internationally.


To Mr.Asano

Because of my lack of ability to understand English, I couldn't
understand some parts of your article. You said you are Japanese. Will
you please send me a Japanese translation of your article
<QeyeHbq00Vp180zUo3@andrew.cmu.edu> to avoid my misunderstanding ? If
you can't use Japanese Kanji environment, Roma-Ji mail is OK.

Especially, please tell me what you meant about following messagese in
Japanese:

In article <QeyeHbq00Vp180zUo3@andrew.cmu.edu>
ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano) writes:

 |                                       You go to a great school. You
 |should take advantage of some commonsense also.  Maybe I can help you
 |get on the right track by inputing a few  simple commonsense questions:

 |				       Now,  before you shared your
 |research with us I was about make a compromise and call this the Sea of
 |the East. I think that everyone can share these god given waters. I have
 |decided at this point to 
 |call this, "The Ko-ryuan(Korean) Sea!!"  And may live as such, forever.

 |									  
 |							    I see
 |that you also call yourself  "Xavier".  Great men of reseach have strode
 |to be unbiased.

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Yuji "Xavier" Komatsu (xavier@kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp)
DC2, Matsunami Lab. (Energy Conversion Devices Lab.)
Dept. of Electrical Engineering II, Kyoto Univ.
TEL. +81-75-753-5341 FAX. +81-75-751-1576