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 fishing. It is also the place where the high priest Kobo Daishi is said ...

And the Kuroshio current, comparable in strength to the Gulf Stream off Mexico, presented a particular challenge. The research was in the vein of the famous 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition in which Norwegian ...

Arrival via the Ryukyu Islands route is believed to have taken place around 35,000 to 30,000 years ago during the late Paleolithic period. However, as Taiwan and Yonaguni Island are separated by the ...

They used both modern and Paleolithic oceanographic models to approximate the flow of the Kuroshio, varying the strength of the current between ebbs and peaks.

And the Kuroshio current, comparable in strength to the Gulf Stream off Mexico, presented a particular challenge. The research was in the vein of the famous 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition in which Norwegian ...

The simulation revealed that skillful boat-making and navigation could overcome the Kuroshio Current even with ancient tools.

TOKYO – A Japanese team has concluded that it was possible to travel from Taiwan to Japan's westernmost island of Yonaguni in a dugout canoe 30,000 years ago. The voyage, in a log boat with no sails, ...

The crew of five paddled their way across 140 miles of open sea in over 45 hours, facing intense fatigue and contending with the powerful Kuroshio current. Navigation was based on the sun, stars, and ...

The Kuroshio Current—one of the strongest and fastest ocean currents in the world—runs through this area. Many believed it would have been impossible to cross without drifting off course.

Yousuke Kaifu A map of the Kuroshio current, which paddlers had to traverse during their 45-hour journey. Additionally, people 30,000 years ago would’ve had to cross the Kuroshio when its current was ...