Tsushima Current

noun

1. a warm ocean current flowing northward along the west coast of Japan.

Example Sentences

Takahashi believes that the T. stictonotus escaped their gradually warming habitat by riding the Tsushima current north and crossing the strait just below Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido to emerge in the Pacific Ocean.

From Reuters

FOR millennia the Tsushima current running north-eastward up the west coast of Japan has brought abundance to fishermen.

From Economist