In 1864 Kuper was in command of the International fleet at the Shimonoseki Expedition, Japan, the action fought to reopen the Inland Sea and the Straits of Shimonoseki.
He served on three successive ships in the North Atlantic and Pacific fleets and accumulated ten battle stars before he entered Japan's Inland Sea with the first group of
She soon left Truk for home waters, and on 16 December 1943, the Kongō arrived at Sasebo for refits and training in the Inland Sea.
The Inland Sea (1992) is based on the travel memoir by Donald Richie and retraces the author's journey while documenting the fading regional culture of rural islands of the Seto Inland Sea.
Mochizuki was born on Ōsakikamijima, an island in the Seto Inland Sea, now part of Hiroshima Prefecture, where his father was an entrepreneur and ship owner.
Recurring whirlpools known as the Naruto whirlpools are located below the bridge, caused by tidal currents between the Seto Inland Sea and the Pacific Ocean passing over undersea ridges under the Span, causing very strong eddy currents, some of which make large, deep whirlpools.
In 1860, the first fossil record was found at Yokosuka and the bottom of Seto Inland Sea, Japan.
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She is enshrined on numerous locations throughout Japan; for example, the Enoshima Island in Sagami Bay, the Chikubu Island in Lake Biwa and the Itsukushima Island in Seto Inland Sea (Japan's Three Great Benzaiten Shrines); and she and a five-headed dragon are the central figures of the Enoshima Engi, a history of the shrines on Enoshima written by the Japanese Buddhist monk Kōkei (皇慶) in AD 1047.