Tsushima may refer to:

Places

Tsushima Island is an island of the Japanese archipelago situated in-between the Tsushima Strait and Korea Strait, approximately halfway between Kyushu and the Korean Peninsula. The main island of Tsushima, once a single island, was divided into two in 1671 b ...

, part of Nagasaki Prefecture ** Tsushima, Nagasaki, a city in Nagasaki Prefecture (coterminous with Tsushima Island) **

Tsushima Province was an Old provinces of Japan, old province of Japan on Tsushima Island which occupied the area corresponding to modern-day Tsushima, Nagasaki, Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, Nagasaki. It was sometimes called . Political history The origin of T ...

, a historical province, coterminous with modern Tsushima Subprefecture ** Tsushima Subprefecture, an administrative subdivision of Nagasaki prefecture (coterminous with Tsushima Island) **

Tsushima Fuchū Domain Tsushima may refer to: Places * Tsushima Island, part of Nagasaki Prefecture ** Tsushima, Nagasaki, a city in Nagasaki Prefecture (coterminous with Tsushima Island) ** Tsushima Province, a historical province, coterminous with modern Tsushima Subp ...

, a feudal domain of the early modern period, largely if not entirely contiguous with the Province *

Tsushima Basin The or Ulleung Basin (울릉분지 ulleung bunji) is an oceanic basin located where the Sea of Japan meets the Korea Strait. It lies immediately south of Ulleung-do and Liancourt Rocks, in the eastern end of the South Korean EEZ and the weste ...

, also known as Ulleung Basin, located at the juncture of the Sea of Japan and the Korea Strait *

Tsushima Strait or Eastern Channel (동수로 Dongsuro) is a channel of the Korea Strait, which lies between Korea and Japan, connecting the Sea of Japan, the Yellow Sea, and the East China Sea. The strait is the channel to the east and southeast of Tsushima ...

, the eastern channel of the Korea Strait * Tsushima, Aichi, a city in Aichi Prefecture * Tsushima, Ehime, a town dissolved in August 2005, formerly located in Ehime Prefecture *

Tsushima Shrine is a Shinto shrine in Tsushima, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is the head shrine of a nationwide shrine network of shrines dedicated to the , Centered primarily in the Tōkai region, this network has approximately 3,000 shrines and is the tenth- ...

, Aichi Prefecture * Tsushima Shrine, located in the city of Mitoyo, Kagawa Prefecture and only accessible one day a year in early August

Events

Battle of Tsushima The Battle of Tsushima (Japanese:対馬沖海戦, Tsushimaoki''-Kaisen'', russian: Цусимское сражение, ''Tsusimskoye srazheniye''), also known as the Battle of Tsushima Strait and the Naval Battle of Sea of Japan (Japanese: 日 ...

(1905), also known as the "Sea of Japan Naval Battle", the last sea battle of the Russo-Japanese War * Tsushima Incident (1861), involving Russia, Japan, and Britain

Ships

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Tsushima Maru ''Tsushima Maru'' ( ja, 対馬丸) was a Japanese passenger/cargo ship that was sunk by the submarine USS ''Bowfin'' during World War II, while carrying hundreds of schoolchildren from Okinawa to Nagasaki. Description Tsushima Maru was carryi ...

'', a civilian ship sunk by American naval forces during World War II * Japanese cruiser ''Tsushima'' * Japanese escort ship ''Tsushima''

People

*, Japanese bobsledder * Keiko Tsushima (1926–2012), Japanese actress *

Leo Tsushima is a Japanese visual novel that has been adapted into an anime television series directed by Shinichiro Kimura. The story focuses on a group of students at a high school and the various romantic attachments that the characters feel for each ...

, fictional character in the ''Tsuyokiss'' video game and anime *

Mitsutoshi Tsushima is a former Japanese football player. Playing career Tsushima was born in Shizuoka Prefecture on July 30, 1974. After graduating from Shimizu Commercial High School, he joined Nagoya Grampus Eight in 1993. He played many matches as side back. Ho ...

(born 1974), Japanese football player * Ryuta Tsushima or Iwakiyama Ryūta (born 1976), Japanese sumo wrestler *

Shuji Tsushima was a Japanese author. A number of his most popular works, such as '' The Setting Sun'' (''Shayō'') and ''No Longer Human'' (''Ningen Shikkaku''), are considered modern-day classics. His influences include Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Murasaki Shik ...

or Osamu Dazai (1909–1948), Japanese author *

Yoshiko Tsushima is a Japanese multimedia project co-developed by ASCII Media Works' ''Dengeki G's Magazine'', music label Lantis, and animation studio Sunrise. The project is the second series of the ''Love Live!'' franchise and is a spin-off sequel of ' ...

, fictional character from the media-mix project ''Love Live! Sunshine!!'' *

Yūko Tsushima Satoko Tsushima (30 March 1947 – 18 February 2016), known by her pen name Yūko Tsushima (津島佑子 ''Tsushima Yūko''), was a Japanese fiction writer, essayist and critic. Tsushima won many of Japan's top literary prizes in her career, i ...

or Tsushima Satoko (born 1947), Japanese fiction writer, essayist and critic *

Yūji Tsushima is a Japanese politician who served in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. He was born in Tokyo Prefecture as Yuji Shima and adopted his mother's family name at age 3, ...

(born 1930), Japanese politician

Other uses

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Ghost of Tsushima ''Ghost of Tsushima'' is a 2020 action-adventure game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The player controls Jin Sakai, samurai on a quest to protect Tsushima Island during the first Mongol ...

'', a video game released in 2020 for the PlayStation 4 *

Tsushima brown frog The Tsushima brown frog or Tsushima leopard frog (''Rana tsushimensis'') is a species of frog in the family Ranidae. It is endemic to the Tsushima Island is an island of the Japanese archipelago situated in-between the Tsushima Strait and K ...

, a species of frog endemic to Japan *

Tsushima cat The leopard cat (''Prionailurus bengalensis'') is a small wild cat native to continental South, Southeast, and East Asia. Since 2002 it has been listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List as it is widely distributed although threatened by hab ...

, a wild cat *

Tsushima Current The , also known as the Black or or the is a north-flowing, warm ocean current on the west side of the North Pacific Ocean basin. It was named for the deep blue appearance of its waters. Similar to the Gulf Stream in the North Atlantic, the K ...

, a branch of the Kuroshio Current into the Sea of Japan *

Tsushima dialect Tsushima dialect (対馬方言) is a dialect of Japanese spoken on Tsushima Island of Nagasaki Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Nagasaki Prefecture has a population of 1,314,078 (1 Jun ...

, a Japanese dialect spoken on Tsushima Island of Nagasaki Prefecture *

Tsushima salamander The Tsushima salamander (''Hynobius tsuensis'') is a species of salamander in the family Hynobiidae, endemic to Japan. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, ...

, a species of salamander endemic to Japan *

Tsushima Shinto , the folk religion of Japan, developed a diversity of schools and sects, outbranching from the original Ko-Shintō (ancient Shintō) since Buddhism was introduced into Japan in the sixth century. Early period schools and groups The main Shin ...

, a sect of Shinto {{disambiguation, geo, surname Japanese-language surnames