Japan/ East Sea

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
JES
Pronunciation
/ʤəˈpæn ist si/
Category
Academic & Science
Related Field
Ocean Science

Examples in Context

  1. He secured the Amur basin for the tsar and then the eastern side of the Sikhote-Alin mountains and the coastline beyond, denying China access to the Sea of Japan ( East Sea ).
  2. To the west it borders the Yellow Sea and the Korea Bay and to the east it borders the Sea of Japan ( East Sea of Korea ).
  3. Murakami sent a letter last year to Obama, enclosing a set of lacquer chopsticks, a famous product of this town on the Sea of Japan ( East Sea ) in Fukui prefecture's Wakasa region.
  4. Indo-West Pacific : southern Japan, East China Sea, and the Philippines, but may extend into Indian Ocean, Australia and New Zealand.
  5. While lower velocity anomalies are found in Xing-Meng block, Baikal rift, North China craton, South China block, Indo-China block, Sea of Okhotsk Japan Sea East China Sea Taiwan Island, Philippine plate and South China Sea.

Other meanings of JES