日本海呼称問題とは、世界中の地図から「日本海」という呼称を消し、「東海」に書き換えようとする問題である。の英語

The Sea of Japan naming dispute revolves around efforts to remove 'Sea of Japan' from the world's maps and replace it with 'East Sea'.

He said, "We'll use various measures in this area to expand Japan's future as a maritime nation."

ccording to estimates by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the rise in sea level caused by global warming could reach 90 centimeters in 100 years.

The subject of fighting piracy will be discussed in the Japan-ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Commemorative Summit to be held in Tokyo next month.

The battle of Okinawa was the only ground battle of World War II fought on the Japanese islands and went on for about three months.

Some of the Japanese people's ancestors are thought to have migrated from Taiwan to the Ryukyu Islands about 30,000 years ago.

The MSC certifies fishery unions and companies that take measures to save the marine environment and to protect fishery resources.

The results showed that although the area has only 0.9 percent of the total volume of sea water, it is home to 33,629 marine species.

On Nov. 20, the Japan Coast Guard (JCG) announced that a volcanic eruption has formed a new island near Nishinoshima in the Ogasawara Islands.

The drilling area is on the Japanese side of the so-called median line between the exclusive economic zones of Japan and China.

The strong earthquake that hit the Tohoku area on the morning of June 14 was named the “Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku Earthquake in 2008.”

Japanese army officer who initiated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and who assumed dictatorial control of Japan during World War II

On Sept. 7, a Chinese boat was fishing in Japanese territorial waters, near the Senkaku Islands, Okinawa Prefecture.

A team of about 50 researchers reviewed scientific literature from 1953 to the present and made a database of marine species living in Japan's exclusive economic zone (EEZ).

But this island which is administered as part of Ogasawara Town, Tokyo, has not always been called Iojima.

As part of such efforts, fish caught in the seas around Tokyo's Hachijo Island have been served for lunch at elementary and junior high schools in Tokyo's urban areas.

The historical area of Hiraizumi and the Ogasawara Islands have been nominated for inclusion on the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites.

under international law, a pursuit that was started against an unlawful ship in territorial waters, and is continued also in the open sea

A spokesperson for the JCG said, "We want to use the data to study the mechanisms and predict the place and scale of the large earthquake anticipated in the Tokai area."

On June 18, Japan and China finally reached an agreement to salvage an unidentified sunken ship in China's exclusive economic zone.

After a strong earthquake off the southwest coast of Hokkaido in 1993, the submersible played an important role in the investigation of cracks in the seabed.

Unlike the earthquake that caused the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster in 2004, this earthquake did not produce any tsunami damage.

Japan consists of four major islands and over 3,000 small islands, and is about equal to California in area.

The coral reefs in the "chura-umi" (beautiful sea) of Okinawa are disappearing.

Ogasawara's local government asked the Institute to change the name back to Ioto, and the Institute decided to call the island Ioto on the maps that will be issued in September.

A large earthquake in the Indian Ocean in December 2004 generated tsunamis that caused great damage to a wide range of coastal areas.

A joint team of researchers at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and several universities has discovered that Japan has about one seventh of all the marine species on earth.

On Feb. 18, the Japanese government announced that Japan's annual whaling research expedition in the Antarctic Ocean had been called off due to harassment by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

National Federation of Fisheries Co-operative Associations gave out tapes of the song to supermarkets nationwide because they wanted seafood to become more popular.

Municipalities in areas along the Ariake Sea in Saga Prefecture have started using a unique method to clean up polluted rivers and seas.