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Michitaka Uda
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Emeritus Professor, Tokyo University of Fisheries. Author of Umi and numerous articles on oceanography.

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Bathymetric map of the Sea of Japan / East Sea, between Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Russia, and China. Shaded water depths show major features including the Japan Basin, Yamato Basin, Tsushima Basin, Yamato Ridge, and Toyama Trough, with surrounding straits and coastal cities.
Sea of Japan / East Sea, marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean. It is bounded by Japan and Sakhalin Island to the east and by Russia and Korea on the Asian mainland to the west. Its area is 377,600 square miles (978,000 square km). It has a mean depth of 5,748 feet (1,752 meters) and a maximum…
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