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

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

The Kuroshio Current is a swift, broad ocean current originating from the east coast of the Philippines transporting warm, tropical waters northward toward Japan.

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, ...

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, ...

The successfully re-enacted voyage suggests that early modern humans likely had a high level of strategic seafaring knowledge ...

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 ...

Increasingly powerful tropical cyclones in the North Pacific Ocean may be fueling a powerful north-flowing ocean current, helping to boost the amount of heat it ferries to northern latitudes.By ...

The Kuroshio (“Black Current,” named after the dark color it lends the horizon when viewed from the shore) is the Pacific Ocean’s answer to the Atlantic’s Gulf Stream.

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.

The color scale shows the water depth, and the large shaded arrow shows the swift Kuroshio current. Photo: Kaifu et al, 2025. The beginning of the voyage.

“The Kuroshio Current is generally considered dangerous to navigate,” Yu-Lin Chang, a study coauthor and oceanography student from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology ...