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Japan Current
Webster's Dictionary
A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; - called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion to the deep blue of its water. It is similar in may ways to the Gulf Stream.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Japan Current'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/j/japan-current.html. 1828.