Short, John RennieDubots, Leah2022-02-112022-02-112020-09-29John Rennie Short & Leah Dubots (2020) CONTESTING PLACE NAMES: THE EAST SEA/SEA OF JAPAN NAMING ISSUE, Geographical Review, DOI: 10.1080/00167428.2020.1827936https://doi.org/10.1080/00167428.2020.1827936http://hdl.handle.net/11603/24253Building on the work of critical toponymy, this paper provides an example of the active contestation of a place name. Since the early 1990s, successive Korean governments have argued that the singular use of “Sea of Japan” is a colonial legacy. We provide a brief historical context for this dispute. We identify the array of names currently used in newspapers, journals, educational texts, and internet sites and show that a dual naming is now a more common usage, especially in international English-language newspapers, atlases, educational textbooks and internet materials. A colonial naming practice has been challenged.36 pagesen-USThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Geographical Review on Sept. 29, 2020, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00167428.2020.1827936.Access to this item will begin on March 29, 2022.Text