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The Japan Sea, known as the East Sea in Korea, covers an area of 106 km2, has a maximum depth in excess of 3700 m, and is one of the four marginal seas of the North Pacific Ocean. The circulation of the Japan/East Sea (hereafter JES) has been studied for nearly a century by scientists from Japan, Korea, and Russia. While this legacy of exploration has left us with som