'Japan current' definitions:
Definition of 'Japan current'
(from WordNet)
noun
A warm ocean current that flows northeastwardly off the coast of Japan into the northern Pacific ocean [syn: Japan current, Kuroshio current, Kuroshio]
Definition of 'Japan current'
From: GCIDE
- Japan current \Japan current\ 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]