Japan Current

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(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Sat Dec 24 2005 at 5:36:12

Japan current.

A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion to the deep blue of its water. It is similar in may ways to the Gulf Stream.

 

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