Japan is in East Asia. - English example sentence

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CK November 14, 2014 November 14, 2014 at 5:10:25 PM UTC

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I wonder if this change is right.
Does "East Asia" match アジアの東部に close enough?

MTC November 14, 2014, edited November 14, 2014 November 14, 2014 at 5:27:04 PM UTC, edited November 14, 2014 at 7:56:29 PM UTC

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I made the change because “Japan lies in the East Asia.” is clearly ungrammatical, and this is the most obvious correction. I know enough French and Russian to know that the pre‐existing links to sentences in those languages are correct now as they are, they both directly translate to “East Asia” and not “the eastern part of Asia”.
It does look like “アジアの東部” means “the eastern part of Asia”, but I don’t know enough about Japanese to say whether it could also reasonably translate to “East Asia”.