Taiwan’s Academia Sinica and National Taiwan Ocean University have signed a memorandum of understanding to further research ...

First broadcast on July 17, 2025 Peter Barakan visits the region of Tosa, famous for the mighty Kuroshio Current and bonito ...

Unlocking a 30,000-year-old mystery, scientists now believe they know how early humans successfully navigated the seas to ...

The Kuroshiro Current running along the Pacific coast that is responsible for Japan's plentiful marine bounty has made a large curve south off the coast of the Tokai region for the first time in ...

The Kuroshio Current carries heat from the warm southern ocean. Normally, the Kuroshio Current turns around off the coast of Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, and flows away to the east.

At that time, the Kuroshio Current is believed to have been 10 percent faster than present. But the researchers found that if paddlers departed from northern Taiwan, ...

The Kuroshio Current takes these waters north, past the Japanese coast, and then eastward at the 36°N latitude, where it joins the open Pacific Ocean. At this point, ...

Currents. The spill site sits among several ocean currents, including the powerful Kuroshio Current, which runs along the coast of Japan and out to the north Pacific Ocean.

The Kuroshio Current takes these waters north, past the Japanese coast, and then eastward at the 36°N latitude, where it joins the open Pacific Ocean. At this point, ...

Stronger storms seem to be speeding up the Kuroshio Current, which ferries warm water north Super-typhoon Mangkhut (shown) swept past the Philippines on September 12, 2018, as a Category 5 storm.