However, some have pointed to the Kuroshio current, a northern equatorial current which flows west to east along the east coasts of Taiwan and Japan. If boats followed this current, might they not indeed have been able to cross the ocean?
就地理而言，有人指出太平洋黑潮，這是一股由西向東流的北赤道流，夜以繼日沿著台灣東岸向日本流去，如果船隻順勢而行，也許未嘗不可能飄洋過海？