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Dear VANK Thank you for this communication. You will be pleased to know hat we have now adjusted our files, and have removed Chinese from the languages spoken in Korea. Regarding the Sea of Japan, We are now adding East Sea as an annotation in all our map products from now on wards. Please look at our Maps and Atlases World Factfile on www.dk.com for confirmation of this. Maybe you could circulate this news among the VANK organization. With best wishes, and thank you again for bringing this matter to my attention.
How to
Name the Sea
Virginia passed the East Sea Bill
“During Japanese annexation, she [mymother] was not allowed to use her given name that her father gave her. She had to use a Japanese name …When they [Koreans] open up the textbooks of their children and they saw a map (with a name that reflects historic inaccuracy), that reminds them of the oppression, that reminds them of the invasion, that reminds them of the body of water that was crossed by the Japanese to come and annex that nation for 35 years.” – Virginia Delegate Mark Keam (Democrat)
“Require all textbooks approved by the Board ofEducation to note that the Sea of Japan is also referred to as the East Sea.” – HB 11, introduced by Virginia Delegate Timothy Hugo (Republican)