South Korea has welcomed Virginia state lawmakers’ approval of a bill that requires new school textbooks to use the Korean name for the Sea of Japan when referring to the body of water between Japan and Korea.
Virginia’s House of Delegates voted 81-15 to approve the two-line bill, which requires “all text books approved by the board of education . . . when referring to the Sea of Japan, shall note that it is also called the East Sea”.
The issue has emerged as the latest diplomatic spat between South Korea and Japan, and comes at a time when relations between the two countries are exceptionally bad amid a territorial dispute over an island group that lies in the sea.
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