Definition of Sea of Japan

1. Noun. An arm of the Pacific between China and Japan.

Exact synonyms: East Sea
Group relationships: Pacific, Pacific Ocean
Generic synonyms: Sea

Definition of Sea of Japan

1. Proper noun. A body of water between Japan and the Asian continent. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sea Of Japan

Scylla
Scyphozoa
Scyth
Scythia
Scythian
Scythian lamb
Scythians
Scyths
Scáthach
Se
Sea of Azof
Sea of Azoff
Sea of Azov
Sea of Cortes
Sea of Galilee
Sea of Japan (current term)
Sea of Marmara
Sea of Marmora
Sea of Okhotsk
Seabee
Seabees
Seaborg
Seagull
Sealand
Sealyham
Sealyham terrier
Seamus
Sean
Sean O'Casey
Seanad

Literary usage of Sea of Japan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Baptist Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1899)
"THE INLAND Sea of Japan THE inner sea is a wonderfully attractive sheet of water, twice as long as Long Island Sound and studded with islands, a panorama of ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1906)
"Sweden »nd Norway 262 Lord Milner and South Africa 277 The Battle of the Sea of Japan. I. The Naval Lesson 297 II. The Results in Russia 303 III. ..."

3. Japan: Travels and Researches Undertaken at the Cost of the Prussian Government by Johannes Justus Rein (1884)
"The N. and W. winds which prevail in winter in the Sea of Japan blow here and on the ... On the Sea of Japan they are chiefly south-west winds (south-west ..."

4. Readings in Modern European History: A Collection of Extracts from the by James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard (1909)
"... describing in detail the great naval battle in the Sea of Japan, May 26-27, I905- The head of the enemy's column, when our main squadron 373. ..."

5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1861)
"... Sea of Japan.* IT was not unpleasant to be at Ta Lien Wan, or "Great Girdle Bay," in Manchuria, when the British expedition against China was collected ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Of the numerous stream» that find their way to the Sea of Japan none require special mention till we come to the Nak-tong-kang, which rises in the eastern ..."

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