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  2. Sea of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The Sea of Japan ( see below for other names) is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East. The Japanese archipelago separates the sea from the Pacific Ocean. Like the Mediterranean Sea, it has almost no tides due to its nearly complete enclosure from the Pacific ...

  3. Sea of Japan naming dispute - Wikipedia

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    above. Japan's preference: Sea of Japan. North Korea's preference: Korean East Sea. South Korea's preference: East Sea. A dispute exists over the international name for the body of water which is bordered by Japan, Korea ( North and South) and Russia. In 1992, objections to the name Sea of Japan were first raised by North Korea and South Korea ...

  4. Geography of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The Sea of Japan was considered to be a frozen inner lake because of the lack of the warm Tsushima Current. Various plants and large animals, such as Palaeoloxodon naumanni, migrated into the Japanese archipelago. The Sea of Japan was a landlocked sea when the land bridge of East Asia existed circa 18,000 BCE. During the glacial maximum, the ...

  5. Geology of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The islands of Japan were separated from mainland Asia by back-arc spreading.. The islands of Japan are primarily the result of several large ocean movements occurring over hundreds of millions of years from the mid-Silurian to the Pleistocene, as a result of the subduction of the Philippine Sea Plate beneath the continental Amurian Plate and Okinawa Plate to the south, and subduction of the ...

  6. Japan - Wikipedia

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    Japan is an island country in East Asia. It is in the northwest Pacific Ocean and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south.

  7. Battle of Tsushima - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Tsushima ( Russian: Цусимское сражение, Tsusimskoye srazheniye ), also known in Japan as the Battle of the Sea of Japan ( Japanese: 日本海海戦, Hepburn: Nihonkai kaisen), was the final naval battle of the Russo-Japanese War, fought on 27–28 May 1905 in the Tsushima Strait. A devastating defeat for the ...

  8. Noto Peninsula - Wikipedia

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    Location. The Noto Peninsula (能登半島, Noto-hantō) is a peninsula that projects north into the Sea of Japan from the coast of Ishikawa Prefecture in central Honshū, the main island of Japan. Before the Meiji era, the peninsula belonged to Noto Province. The main industries of the peninsula are agriculture, fisheries, and tourism.

  9. Chinese ships spend record amount of time near Japan ... - AOL

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    China Coast Guard ships have been in waters around Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea for a record 158 consecutive days, according to Tokyo’s latest count released Monday ...

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