japan current

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• 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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• noun a warm ocean current that flows northeastwardly off the coast of Japan into the northern Pacific ocean