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

Taiwan’s Academia Sinica and National Taiwan Ocean University have signed a memorandum of understanding to further research and develop of the power generating potential of the Kuroshio Current.

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

Cold War-era nuclear weapons tests caused a 1,000-times higher cesium-137 concentration in the Kuroshio Current than wastewater leakage from Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant following a ...

Normally, the Kuroshio Current turns around off the coast of Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, and flows away to the east. However, from around the fall of 2020, it began to markedly move northward along ...

Warming of the Kuroshio Current Over the Last Four Decades has Intensified the Meiyu‐Baiu Rainband Journal: Geophysical Research Letters Published: 2024-01-28 DOI: 10.1029/2023gl107021 ...

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, it becomes the Kuroshio ...

The sea off the prefecture's Kushimoto Town at the southernmost tip of the main island of Honshu is a habitat for several kinds of coral thanks to the warm Kuroshio Current that flows nearby.

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, it becomes the Kuroshio ...

"It's rare globally for an ocean current like the Kuroshio to make such a large curve for a long period of time. There will be various effects on fishing, tide levels and weather in every region." ...