TOKYO, Aug. 23 Kyodo Japan decide...

TOKYO, Aug. 23 Kyodo

Japan decided Friday to hurl a minister of the Japanese Embassy in southern Korea to an upcoming UN interview on uniform designations of geographical flaws in the world to clarify its stance onward the use of the ''Sea of Japan,'' which southern Korea opposes, Foreign Ministry officials said Friday.

Hiroshi Inomata will attend the Eighth UN interview on the Standardization of Geographical Names in Berlin from Tuesday as a special minister the officials said.

At the parley which ends Sept. 5, southward Korea is expected to purpose a revision for the name of the carcass of water surrounded by the Japanese archipelago forward the west, Russia's Far East upon the north and the Korean Peninsula forward the east, they said.

southern Korea argues that the area should be renamed the ''East Sea,'' or the pair the East Sea and the Sea of Japan. It has been calling for a revision since the 1992 conference

Japan has sent a representative from the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry's Geographical scrutinize Institute to the meeting for consultation which is held once each five years, and will do for a like reason for the upcoming meeting.

Earlier, Japan lodg a affirm after it discovered the ''Sea of Japan'' designation has been eliminated in the final draft of a guideline of the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), which is based in Monaco and acts to harmonize nautical charts and documents.

Seoul says the use of the Sea of Japan name has become public because Tokyo occupied the Korean Peninsula before and during World War II.

Japan, meanwhile, says the name has been used internationally since the late 18th century

The revision of the ''Limits of Oceans and Seas'' guideline is publicly under way and IHO member states have to answer to revision proposals on the end of November.

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