Japan Current

American  

noun

1. a warm ocean current in the Pacific, flowing N along the E coast of Taiwan, NE along the E coast of Japan, and continuing in an easterly direction into the open Pacific.

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Japan Current British  

noun

1. Also called: Kuroshio.  a warm ocean current flowing northeastwards off the E coast of Japan towards the North Pacific

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Japan Current Scientific  

/ jə-păn′ /

1. A branch of the North Equatorial Current that flows northeast from the Philippine Sea, north along the eastern shore of Taiwan, past southeastern Japan, and onward to the North Pacific. Its warm air moderates the climate of Taiwan and Japan.

2. Also called Kuroshio Current

3. See more at equatorial current gyre

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Example Sentences

China's July trade data top a heavy regional economic calendar on Tuesday, with current account, bank lending and household spending reports from Japan, current account data from South Korea and Australian consumer sentiment also on tap.

From Reuters

The charts exhibit, with wonderful accuracy, the winds and currents, their force and direction at different seasons, the calm belts, the trade winds, the rains and storms—the gulf stream, the Japan current—all the great ocean movements; and the sailing directions are treasure chests for seamen.

From Project Gutenberg

They did not then understand the effect of the Japan current upon the Pacific Coast climate.

From Project Gutenberg

Her shores, bathed by the warm Japan Current, or Ku-ro Si-wa, which is deflected southward from Alaska, are many degrees warmer than their latitude alone would warrant.

From Project Gutenberg

There you have a great bowl, fashioned by Nature in such a way as to open invitingly to the warm and equable winds that come from the Pacific and the Japan current, while on the north, west, and south are high mountain ranges that protect from the blizzards that come out of the north or the hot desert blasts from the south.

From Project Gutenberg