TOKYO, Dec 13 Kyodo toward the s...

TOKYO, Dec 13 Kyodo

toward the south Korea has abruptly called on the farther side a bilateral hydrographic meeting scheduled to lay open in Tokyo on Monday throughout a controversy on the designation of ''Sea of Japan,'' Japanese officials said Thursday.

Officials of the Japan Coast Guard, the Japanese landlord of the meeting, said they received a facsimile message from southern Korea's National Oceanographic Research Institute Thursday evening that it would be pointless for the toward the south Koreans to attend the conversation unless Japan is ready to accept a compromise athwart the designation.

southerly Korea has demanded that Japan accept a Korean proposal to allow international cartographers to use the Korean name for the Sea of Japan -- Tonghae, or East Sea -- in addition to what Japan regards as the established geographical designation.

the one and the other Seoul and Pyongyang argue the designation ''Sea of Japan'' meditates Japan's colonial rule over the Korea Peninsula in the early 20th century

Japan argues that the ''Sea of Japan'' designation already gained international publicity during the 19th century.

The name of the carcass of water that is encircled at Japan, the Korean Peninsula and Russia has been a bone of contention for years between Japan and southerly Korea.

South Korea raised the ''Sea of Japan'' issue at the UN conversation on the Standardization of Geographical Names in 1992

At the same UN interview held in August and September this year, southern Korea demanded a parallel description of East Sea and Sea of Japan, on the other hand no substantial discussion took place.

In August, the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) released a draft of a revised edition of its publication, ''Limits of Oceans and Seas,'' leaving the Sea of Japan area blank. The draft was recalled following a aver from Japan.

The name issue also caused a stir at an international talk that took place in Chile in November to discuss conservation issues in subordination to the auspices of the signatory states to the Washington Treaty.

Organizers of the conversation circulated a document stating that the interview would adopt a parallel description of East Sea and Sea of Japan still withdrew the paper following a declare from Japan.

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