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

A Mediterranean Plaza. Unlike other pavilions that rely on imposing façades, Spain’s contribution proposes an open and ...

A new study reveals that global ocean analysis products can effectively replace expensive in-situ sound speed measurements for precise seafloor ...

While the distance of 140 miles isn’t mighty when compared to some of the voyages the Polynesians are known to have made, it ...

Neogene History of the Kuroshio Current Extension and Planktic Foraminifera Evolutionary Implications. PhD Dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst.

First broadcast on July 10, 2025 Once a poor fisher boy, John Manjiro became the first Japanese person to receive a formal ...

Long-standing questions about the migration of early modern humans in East Asia may finally be answered, thanks to a rare and ...

Archaeological evidence shows that 30,000 years ago, Palaeolithic people travelled from the island now known as Taiwan to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

They used both modern and Paleolithic oceanographic models to approximate the flow of the Kuroshio, varying the strength of the current between ebbs and peaks.

Paddling over 45 hours across the open sea, the crew navigated using only the sun and stars to overcome the strong Kuroshio current.