Bungo Channel

Coordinates: 32°54′32″N 132°15′00″E / 32.909°N 132.25°E / 32.909; 132.25
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Bungo Channel
豊後水道 (Japanese)
Bungo Channel Map
Bungo Channel Map
Bungo Channel is located in Japan
Bungo Channel
Bungo Channel
Location of Bungo Channel
LocationJapan
Coordinates32°54′32″N 132°15′00″E / 32.909°N 132.25°E / 32.909; 132.25
Typestrait
Basin countriesJapan
SettlementsŌita, Uwajima, Seiyo, Sukumo
ReferencesBungo Strait: Japan National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA

The Bungo Channel (豊後水道, Bungo-suidō[1]) is a strait separating the Japanese islands of Kyushu and Shikoku. It connects the Philippine Sea and the Seto Inland Sea on the western end of Shikoku.[2] The narrowest part of this channel is the Hōyo Strait.

In the English-speaking world, the Bungo Strait is most known as a setting in the 1958 World War II submarine film Run Silent, Run Deep, based upon the best-selling 1955 novel by then-Commander Edward L. Beach Jr.[3] On 9 November 1944, the USS Archerfish sank the Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano, just nine hours into its maiden voyage in the Bungo strait. Shinano had been built in secret after being converted to a carrier, from a battleship of the Yamato class.

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  1. ^ Teikoku's Complete Atlas of Japan, Teikoku-Shoin Co., Ltd., Tokyo, ISBN 4-8071-0004-1
  2. ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Bungo Kaikyō" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 91.
  3. ^ Sheffield, Richard. (2009). Subs on the Hunt: 40 of the Greatest WWII Submarine War Patrols, p. 24, at Google Books; Leeman, Sergio and Robert Wise. (1995). Robert Wise on his Films: from Editing Room to Director's Chair, p. 145.

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