japan current

• POS: Noun Phrase
• HYPHEN: Ja=pan Cur=rent

CIDE DICTIONARY

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.]