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Typhoon Vera, also known as the Isewan Typhoon (伊勢湾台風, Ise-wan Taifū), was an exceptionally intense tropical cyclone that struck Japan in September 1959, becoming the strongest and deadliest typhoon on record to make landfall on the country, as well as the only one to do so as a Category 5 equivalent storm.
The most destructive was Typhoon Vera (known in Japan as the Isewan Typhoon), with 5,000 casualties in the Tokai region in September 1959. The costliest to affect Japan (and the second costliest in the Western Pacific basin when not adjusted for inflation) was Typhoon Hagibis (also known as the Reiwa 1 East Japan Typhoon), which caused $17.3 ...
Pages in category "1959 Pacific typhoon season" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... Typhoon Vera This page was last ...
Alison Sealy-Smith, Barbadian-born Canadian actress (voice of Snake in Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends, Gamora in Silver Surfer, second voice of Storm in X-Men: The Animated Series). Calpurnio, Spanish poster artist, animator, illustrator, veejay and comics artist (worked on an animated TV series of his signature comic series Cuttlas), (d. 2022).
The following is a list of feature films produced and distributed by the American studio Columbia Pictures from 1950 until 1959. While the company continued to make many of its films in-house, it increasingly also released films made by independent producers .
The Isewan Typhoon Story 伊勢湾台風物語 (Ise-wan Taifu Monogatari) Japan Seijirō Kōyama: Mirai Industry Co., Ltd. Mushi Production Space Eizo: Traditional: Theatrical: Fictionalization of the Typhoon Vera disaster that occurred in Japan on September 21–28, 1959. November 4, 1989 88 minutes The Journey to Melonia: Fantasies of ...
The "Isewan Typhoon", also known as Typhoon Vera, killed more than 5,000 people in Japan, injuring over 32,000 and leaving 1.5 million people homeless after striking Nagoya. The strongest storm ever recorded in Japan, the typhoon had winds as high as 160 miles per hour (260 km/h) and brought a 17-foot (5.2 m) high wave inland, then moved across ...
The American films of 1959 are listed in a table of the films which were made in the United States and released in 1959. The film Ben-Hur won the Academy Award for Best Picture , among winning a record-setting eleven Oscars .