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

Experimental archaeologists completed a 45-hour canoe trip from Taiwan to Japan using only Paleolithic equipment.

The Kuroshio Current, also known as the Japan Current, is a strong western boundary current in the northwestern Pacific Ocean which begins off the east coast and flows northeastward past Japan. The ...

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

In the forests of eastern Taiwan, a team of scientists set out to answer a question that has puzzled archaeologists for decades. Without access to modern tools or navigational aids, how did ...

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

Some 30,000 years ago, humans sailed 140 miles from Taiwan to Japan’s southern Yonaguni Island, navigating the Pacific Ocean’s powerful Kuroshio currents. But how exactly did they manage to complete ...

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 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 ...

"The Kuroshio current is considered like the Gulf Stream of the Pacific, a very large current that can rapidly carry the radioactivity into the interior" of the ocean, Buesseler said.

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 ...