Geographical issues on maritime names
Subtitle: special reference to the East Sea
Publisher: Northeast Asian History Foundation
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Seoul, Korea
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9788961872010
Subjects: Geographical Names; Toponymy; Names; Political geography; Political aspects; Territorial waters
Description: This book contains seventeen papers selected from seminars of The International Seminar on Sea Names presented annually since 1995.  They range in focus from discussing the principles and practices of naming seas and accompanying issues of international standardization and documentation to research on finding a resolution to the chronic disputes between Korea and Japan on the name of the sea between them.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Definition of location of maritime objects and their names  -- Naftali Kadmon; title: Is "exonym" an appropriate term for names of features beyond any sovereignty?"  -- Peter Jordan; title: Bilingual and multilingual marine and lacustrine names, consent and dissent  -- Naftali Kadmon; title: Use of national names for international bodies of water  -- Alexander B. Murphy; title: East Sea, Sea of Japan, what is the problem?  -- Li Jin-mieung; title: Change of meaning in "East Sea" and "Sea of Japan," theories shed light on meaning of geographic names  -- Rainer Dormels; title: Usage of "East Sea" in scientific and reference literature  -- Norman Cherkis; title: "Donghae" and "NihonKai," "East Sea" and "Sea of Japan," are they exonyms or allonums, and is there a missing term?  -- Naftali Kadmon; title: United Nations resolutions on maritime feature names  -- Peter E. Raper; title: Problematic of the appellations of the names of the sears and ocians and policies of the UNGEGN  -- Brahim Atoui; title: IHO seeking way to resolve East Sea name dispute  -- Park Nohyoung; title: Sea of the three endonyms, how maritime names like "East Sea" or Sea of Japan" fit into two categories  -- Paul Woodman; title: "Donghae" and "Nihonkai", impossible to coexist?  -- Choo Sungjae; title: One sea, two names, the case of the "East Sea"  -- SinGil-sou; title: Korea pushes for neutral name of "Sea of Japan"  -- Lee Ki-suk; title: Sea of the world interest in the "East Sea" name needed  -- Kim Jin Hyun; title: Resolutions of the international hydrographic organization ---- Esolutions of the United Nations conferences on the Standardization of Geographical Names.