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Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan: 4: 262 injuries: F3 tornado [81] Nobeoka, Miyazaki tornado: 18 September 2006: Nobeoka, Miyazaki Prefecture , Japan – 3 fatalities, 100 injuries: 2nd deadliest tornado in recent Japanese history [82] 2006 Saroma tornado: 7 November 2006: Saroma, Hokkaidō, Japan: 9 fatalities, 26 injuries: F3 tornado.
This is a list of Japanese disasters by their death toll. Included in the list are disasters both natural and man-made, but it excludes acts of war and epidemics . The disasters occurred in Japan and its territories or involved a significant number of Japanese citizens in a specific event, where the loss of life was 30 or more.
Japan is regularly affected by natural disasters, with the country also being in the Ring of Fire.Two out of the five most expensive natural disasters in recent history have occurred in Japan, in 1995 (~6,500 deaths) and 2011 (~20,000 deaths) – the latter of which had also triggered the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
Japanese commentators interpreted the disaster as an act of divine punishment to admonish the Japanese people for their self-centered, immoral, and extravagant lifestyles. In the long run, the response to the disaster was a strong sense that Japan had been given an unparalleled opportunity to rebuild the city and rebuild Japanese values.
"I've never experienced such a strong wind or tornado in my 31 years of life," Maeda told Reuters. ... Typhoon Shanshan is the latest harsh weather system to hit Japan, following Typhoon Ampil ...
Hagibis caused catastrophic destruction across much of eastern Japan. Hagibis spawned a large tornado on October 12, which struck the Ichihara area of Chiba Prefecture during the onset of Hagibis; the tornado, along with a 5.7 magnitude earthquake off the coast, caused additional damage to those areas that were damaged by Hagibis.
Tetsuya Theodore Fujita (/ f uː ˈ dʒ iː t ɑː /; FOO-jee-tah) (藤田 哲也, Fujita Tetsuya, October 23, 1920 – November 19, 1998) was a Japanese and American meteorologist whose research primarily focused on severe weather.
Bangladesh, the Philippines, and Japan have the highest number of reported tornadoes in Asia. The single deadliest tornado ever recorded struck the Manikganj District of Bangladesh on 26 April 1989, killing an estimated 1,300 people, injuring 12,000, and leaving approximately 80,000 people homeless. [ 32 ]