Stronger Tropical Cyclones Strengthen the Kuroshio Current, Further Heating High Latitudes (2 of 2) (IMAGE) American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Caption ...

A crisis management task force in the coastal town of Kuroshio in Kochi prefecture, where a tsunami as high as 34 meters (111 feet) was predicted in the government risk analysis, initially set up ...

In the town of Kuroshio, also in Kochi, elderly residents and others were urged to evacuate voluntarily to safer locations.

Drifting on the Kuroshio Current for roughly 170 days, they reach Japan and nearby waters, where they are captured for aquaculture. Despite the long journey in the Pacific, juvenile eels are still ...

However, there is an outside chance the dugongs are inhabitants of waters off northern Luzon Island in the Philippines that migrated to the Ryukyu Islands on the back of the Kuroshio current ...

The currents also bring the country a couple of world records. The powerful Kuroshio shoots warm water northward, allowing coral reefs to thrive where they would not normally be found. The East ...

particularly the cross-Pacific Kuroshio current. And fishermen have told the BBC they fear their reputation has been permanently damaged and worry for their jobs. The Pacific Islands Forum Chair ...

If you’re coming via Osaka or Kyoto, take the Kuroshio express train to Kii-Tanabe in Wakayama; it’s two hours, 10 minutes from Shin-Osaka (departing almost hourly) and three hours from Kyoto ...

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Aug. 15 (UPI) --Japan Thursday lifted a week-long megaquake advisory that urged increased preparedness for a possible huge earthquake along the country's coast. The advisory was ended after ...

For example: Gulf Stream in the north-west Atlantic Kuroshio Current in the north-west Pacific Agulhas Current in the south-west Indian Ocean In the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the currents make ...

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