Mimana

Southern Korea around the time of the Gaya confederacy. This region has been described as the most likely location of Mimana

Mimana (Chinese and Japanese: 任那; pinyin: Rènnà; Korean: 임나), also transliterated as Imna according to the Korean pronunciation, is the name used primarily in the 8th-century Japanese text Nihon Shoki, likely referring to one of the Korean states of the time of the Gaya confederacy (c. 1st–5th centuries). As Atkins notes, "The location, expanse, and Japaneseness of Imna/Mimana remain among the most disputed issues in East Asian historiography."[1] Seth notes that the very existence of Mimana is still disputed.[2]However, the hypothesis that "Mimana Nihonfu" was a Japanese colonial ruling institution of Koreans is being denied by the historical academia in Korea and Japan.[3][4]

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  3. ^ '2010年韓日歷史共同研究.2010-09-04.]
  4. ^ "Summary of the report on the second Japan-Korea joint historical research project". Archived from the original on 2015-09-07. Retrieved 2015-11-01.