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The branch meandered eastward approximately 21\u00b0N, carrying high chlorophyll-a (Chla) waters for over 1000 km from 125\u00b0E into the nutrient-poor North Pacific subtropical gyre (NPSG). The branch was warmer and fresher than the surrounding waters, with temperature\u2013salinity properties resembling those of Kuroshio Current. Thus, we called it the eastward cross-shore Kuroshio branch (ECKB). Injecting fresher waters far into the central NPSG, the ECKB flowed at a mean surface speed of 0.5 m per second, as shown in satellite altimeters, a Lagrangian drifter, and the Japan-Meteorological-Agency (JMA) 137\u00b0E-meridian cruise transect. The mechanism of the ECKB was linked to a surface cyclonic wind anomaly to the north at approximately 22\u201324\u00b0N. The cyclonic wind anomaly cooled the ocean surface beneath it via Ekman suction and then enhanced the subtropical front to its south at approximately 21\u00b0N near the Kuroshio Current. 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