Typhoons in Japan
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Japan is one of the countries frequently hit by typhoons.
Since recording started in 1951, an average of 2.6 typhoons reached the main islands of Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu and Hokkaido per year. Approximately 10.3 typhoons approach within the 300 kilometer range near the coast of Japan. Okinawa is, due to its geographic location, most vulnerable to typhoons with an average of 7 storms per year. The most destructive was Isewan Typhoon with 5,000 casualties in the Tokai region in September 1959. In October 2004, Typhoon Tokage caused heavy rain in Kyushu and central Japan with 98 casualties. Until the 1960s the death toll was hundreds of people per typhoon. Since the 1960s improvements in construction, flood prevention, high tides detection and early warnings substantially reduced the death toll which rarely exceeds a dozen people per typhoon. Japan also has special search and rescue units to save people in distress.[1]
Special names of typhoons by JMA
[edit]The JMA assigns special names to typhoons that have caused significant damage so that they can be handed down to future generations.[2]
Name | Number | Japanese name |
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Ida | T4518 | Makurazaki Typhoon (阿久根台風)[4][5] |
Louise | T4523 | Akune Typhoon (阿久根台風) |
Marie | T5415 | Tōya Maru Typhoon (洞爺丸台風) |
Ida | T5822 | Kanogawa Typhoon (狩野川台風) |
Sarah | T5914 | Miyakojima Typhoon (宮古島台風) |
Vera | T5915 | Isewan Typhoon (伊勢湾台風) |
Nancy | T6118 | 2nd Muroto Typhoon (第2室戸台風) |
Cora | T6618 | 2nd Miyakojima Typhoon (第2宮古島台風) |
Della | T6816 | 3rd Miyakojima Typhoon (第3宮古島台風) |
Babe | T7709 | Okinoerabu Typhoon (沖永良部台風) |
Faxai | T1915 | Reiwa 1 Bōsō Peninsula Typhoon (令和元年房総半島台風) |
Hagibis | T1919 | Reiwa 1 East Japan Typhoon (令和元年東日本台風) |
References
[edit]- ^ "Typhoons in Japan". Factsanddetails.com. Archived from the original on January 29, 2020.
- ^ "顕著な災害を起こした自然現象の名称について". www.jma.go.jp. 気象庁. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
- ^ "気象庁が名称を定めた気象・地震・火山現象一覧" (in Japanese). Japan Meteorological Agency. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
- ^ "枕崎台風 昭和20年(1945年) 9月17日~9月18日". www.data.jma.go.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-08-08.
- ^ 第三版,日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ), ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典,朝日新聞掲載「キーワード」,デジタル大辞泉,百科事典マイペディア,世界大百科事典 第2版,大辞林. "枕崎台風(まくらざきたいふう)とは". コトバンク (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-08-08.
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