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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.
 
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