Tsushima

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Tsushima may refer to:

A place in Japan:

  • Tsushima, Aichi, a city in Aichi Prefecture
  • Tsushima, Ehime, a town dissolved in August 2005, formerly located in Ehime Prefecture
  • Tsushima, Nagasaki, a city in Nagasaki Prefecture
  • Tsushima Basin, also known as Ulleung Basin, located at the juncture of the Sea of Japan and the Korea Strait
  • Tsushima Island, part of Nagasaki Prefecture
  • Tsushima Province, a historical province, contiguous with modern Tsushina Subprefecture
  • Tsushima Subprefecture, an administrative subdivision of Nagasaki prefecture
  • Tsushima Fuchū Domain, a feudal domain of the early modern period, largely if not entirely contiguous with the Province
  • Tsushima Strait, the eastern channel of the Korea Strait
  • Tsushima Shrine, located in Mino town of Kagawa Prefecture and is only accessible one day a year in early August.


A Japanese surname:

  • Tsushima Yuko (born 1947), pen name of "Tsushima Satoko", a Japanese fiction writer, essayist and critic
  • Tsushima Yuji, a writer


Tsushima may also refer to:

  • Tsushima Maru, a civilian ship sunk by American naval forces during World War II
  • Battle of Tsushima (1905), also known as the "Sea of Japan Naval Battle", the last sea battle of the Russo-Japanese War
  • Tsushima Current, a branch of the Kuroshio Current into the Sea of Japan



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