This old Japanese interpretation has been disputed by Korean scholars. At first they simply chose to ignore it, but more recently their position has been bolstered as continuing archeological excavations on the Korean Peninsula have failed to produce any evidence supporting this hypothesis. Korean historians generally interpret the claim about a Japanese colony in Korea as nationalistic colonial historiography, which has been accepted by other historians. Korean scholar Chun-Gil Kim, in his 2005 book "The History of Korea", discusses this topic under the section "The Mimana fallacy".