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Tsushima

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ52048
Source-derived summary

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 Subprefecture

Tsushima Subprefecture, an administrative subdivision of Nagasaki prefecture (coterminous with Tsushima Island)

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

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

Tsushima Strait, 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, 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 (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

Tsushima Maru, a civilian ship sunk by American naval forces during World War II

Japanese ship Tsushima, a Japanese shipname used by multiple warships

People

Fuminori Tsushima (対馬 文紀; born 1969), Japanese bobsledder

Keiko Tsushima (1926–2012), Japanese actress

Leo Tsushima, fictional character in the Tsuyokiss video game and anime

Mitsutoshi Tsushima (born 1974), Japanese football player

Ryuta Tsushima or Iwakiyama Ryūta (born 1976), Japanese sumo wrestler

Shuji Tsushima or Osamu Dazai (1909–1948), Japanese author

Yoshiko Tsushima, fictional character from the media-mix project Love Live! Sunshine!!

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Tsushima” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 1905, 1861, 1969—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Tsushima, Wikimedia and disambiguation can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q52048. The first chronological checks are 2005, 1905, 1861 and 1969.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from Tsushima” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.