According to her, a second theory about Mimana was proposed by a North Korean scholar Gim Seokhyeong, who proposed that it was in fact Koreans who had a colony on Japanese islands, somewhere around Oyama prefecture, and thus Nihongi should be understood as referring only to the Japanese lands, not the Korean peninsula.
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Japanese publicists during the twentieth century looked to the controversial Nihonshoki, which claims that Gaya (named "Mimana" also "Kara" in Japanese) was a military outpost of Japan during the Yamato period (300-710).