Japan Demands Correction to Equal Earth Map over Depiction of Disputed Islands
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The Japanese government has reacted angrily after the ‘Equal Earth projection’ map, which the UN recommended for adoption, depicted the Northern Territories (the four islands within the Kuril Islands over which Japan claims sovereignty) as Russian territory. The mapmaker has stated that they will correct this region to match the color of Japanese territory only for future Japanese editions.
(Tokyo=Yonhap News) Correspondent Lee Do-yeon = In the official map of the 'Equal Earth projection,' for which a resolution recommending adoption by countries was recently passed at the UN General Assembly, Japan and...
"But Crimea," the Japanese Are Outraged by the New Map of the World Presented to the United Nations.
At the UNGA, Japan was humiliated in the face of the world, says Sankei Shimbun. By supporting the resolution on a new map of the world, Tokyo acknowledged that the Curiles belonged to Russia, and the readers of the publication were terrified that years of economic sanctions and slogans had led the country to complete diplomatic default.
It has been discovered that the Northern Territories are depicted in the same color as Russian territory on a world map using the "Equal Earth Projection," which is intended to more accurately represent the area of each country. The map's creator told FNN that they intend to change the color of the Northern Territories to match that of the Japanese archipelago in future Japanese-language versions of the map. The Equal Earth Projection was adopte…
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