{"id":8775,"date":"2026-09-22T11:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T06:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8775"},"modified":"2026-09-22T15:28:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T09:58:21","slug":"sea-of-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sea-of-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea of Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Sea of Japan Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, it was reported that North Korea fired two missiles into the Sea of Japan with the launches taking place within hours of each other.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Sea of Japan<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Sea of Japan, or <\/span><b>East Sea<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is a marginal <\/span><b>sea of the western Pacific Ocean.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Boundaries:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is bounded by <\/span><b>Russia and Sakhalin<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Island in the<\/span><b> north<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>by North Korea<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the <\/span><b>west<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>South Korea<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the <\/span><b>southwest,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and by the <\/span><b>Japanese archipelago<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Hokkaid\u014d, Honsh\u016b, and Ky\u016bsh\u016b islands) in the <\/span><b>east and south.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Connections<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is connected with the <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/east-china-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\">East China Sea<\/a> via the Tsushima and Korea straits<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and with the <\/span><b>Okhotsk Sea<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the <\/span><b>north by the La Perouse and Tatar straits.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the east, it is connected with the <\/span><b>Inland Sea of Japan via the Kanmon Strait<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><b>Pacific Ocean by the Tsugaru Strait.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Deepest Point:<\/b> <b>Dohoku Seamount<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an underwater volcano, is its deepest point.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Climate:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Its relatively <\/span><b>warm waters<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> contribute greatly to the mild climate of Japan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Tides:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Like the Mediterranean Sea, <\/span><b>it has almost no tides due<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to its nearly complete enclosure from the Pacific Ocean.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sea is known for its <\/span><b>high concentration of oxygen<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (dissolved in the seawater), which results in <\/span><b>high biological productivity.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Major Ports<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Russia:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Vladivostok, Sovetskaya Gavan, Nakhodka, Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky, and Kholmsk.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>North Korea:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Hamhung, Chongjin, and Wonsan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Japan:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Niigata, Tsuruta, and Maizuru.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/north-korea-fires-2-ballistic-missiles-into-east-sea-japan-south-korea-monitor-situation-reports-101789895280813.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sea of Japan is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean. Read more about Sea of Japan, Location, Connections, Major Ports, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":86475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,22,23],"class_list":["post-8775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8775"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125714,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775\/revisions\/125714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}