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Meteorological organizations in Japan have their origins in the 1870s, when the first weather stations started being established in the country. [1] One of these was the Tokyo Meteorological Observatory (東京気象台, Tōkyō Kishō-dai), which since 1956 has been known as the Japan Meteorological Agency (気象庁, Kishō-chō).
The Hiroshima Local Meteorological Observatory was moved to Kami-hachobori, Naka-ku, Hiroshima on December 22, 1987. The building was placed under the Hiroshima City to preserve on November 1, 1990. The building was reborn as the first Museum of Meteorology in Japan on June 1, 1992.
The installation was completed on August 15, 1964, [1] and is now recorded on the list of IEEE Milestones in electrical engineering.When first built, the Mount Fuji Radar System was the world's highest weather radar (elevation 3,776 metres [12,388 ft]), and could observe major weather phenomena, such as destructive typhoons, at a range of more than 800 kilometres (500 mi).
Weather History- A room with artifacts from the past hundreds of years of weather forecasting, and how weather forecasting technology has evolved. Weather Sphere - A 3-D globe where visitors can view satellite images of current weather conditions and past Hurricanes, plate tectonics, satellite tracking, and the planets of the Solar System .
Japan Medical Association, professional association of licensed physicians in Japan; Japan Meteorological Agency, Japanese government agency that researches natural phenomena; Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar, Islamist jihadist group fighting in the Syrian Civil War against the government.
Japan's Tokyo Meteorological Observatory, the forerunner of the Japan Meteorological Agency, began constructing surface weather maps in 1883. [ 11 ] The London Times published the first weather map on April 1, 1875. [ 12 ]
Logo of Japan Weather Association Japan Weather Association ( Japanese : 日本気象協会 JWA [ 1 ] ) is a Japanese weather forecasting company [ 2 ] [ 3 ] founded in 1950. [ 4 ]
Tetsu Tamura (also known as "S. Tetsu Tamura"; birth name: Satoru Tamura); [1] October 18, 1876 – August 19, 1909) was a Japanese meteorologist and oceanographer, who utilized higher mathematics, active in the United States (U.S. National Weather Service) before Syukuro Manabe (2021 Nobel Prize in Physics) and Japan during the Meiji era.