2019年10月12日土曜日

A supermarket shelf in Tateyama, Chiba Prefecture, is almost empty Friday night after panic buying ahead of Saturday's typhoon. Photo: KYODO

Japan on highest alert as huge typhoon set to hit Tokyo area


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TOKYO
Japan is on its highest level of alert as a major typhoon expected to make landfall on Saturday evening edged closer to Tokyo and other areas of eastern Japan, with train operators and airlines planning to suspend many services in the metropolitan area.
Typhoon Hagibis, which could dump amounts of rain not seen since a deadly typhoon in 1958, is expected to continue drawing closer and reach the Pacific coast of central Japan or eastern Japan in the evening, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
The projected path of the typhoon may result in further damage to areas in Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo where another powerful typhoon triggered widespread power outages in September.
With winds forecast to reach 216 kilometers per hour, Typhoon Hagibis could potentially knock over houses in the Tokai area in central Japan and the Kanto-Koshin region, including the Tokyo metropolitan area, the agency warned.
Up to 1,000 millimeters of rain is expected in the Tokai region, and 600 mm in the Kanto-Koshin region, in the 24-hour period through midnight Saturday, the agency said.
There will be no shinkansen bullet train service between Tokyo and Nagoya on Saturday. Just six early morning services will run between Nagoya and Shin-Osaka, and operations between Shin-Osaka and Okayama will be canceled from the afternoon.
East Japan Railway Co said it will gradually suspend train runs in the Tokyo metropolitan area from Saturday morning and halt services around 1 p.m., including its Tohoku and Hokuriku shinkansen services.
All Nippon Airways Co said it will cancel all domestic flights and most international flights to and from Tokyo's Haneda and Narita airports on Saturday.
Japan Airlines Co has also decided to cancel most of its flights on Saturday.
Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea, located in a bayside area near the capital, will be closed from Saturday morning to Sunday at noon, according to operator Oriental Land Co. It will be the first whole-day closure for the theme parks since 2011 when a massive earthquake and tsunami hit northeastern Japan.
Many department stores in and around Tokyo including Mitsukoshi, Isetan and Seibu will be closed Saturday, their operators said, adding that they will decide later whether to open the stores on Sunday.
Among manufacturers, Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. said they will suspend operations at some of their plants Saturday.
According to the weather agency, the predicted rainfall amounts would be in line with those deposited by Typhoon Ida in September 1958, which left 1,200 people dead or missing across Japan.
That typhoon, known as Kanogawa in Japan, ripped through the Kanto region and the Izu Peninsula, causing the Kano River in Shizuoka Prefecture to overflow.
As of 2 a.m. Saturday, Typhoon Hagibis was traveling north at a speed of 20 kph, some 380 km southwest of Hachijo Island in the Pacific. It had an atmospheric pressure of 935 hectopascals at its center and was packing winds of up to 234 kph.
© KYODO

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It is relatively lucky for salaried men and corporations the typhoon is coming on the weekend while all festivals are cancelled and tourists are disappointed.
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The overreaction is ridiculous, even by Japanese standards.
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It is relatively lucky for salaried men and corporations the typhoon is coming on the weekend while all festivals are cancelled and tourists are disappointed.
Not "all" the Naha "Tug-of-War" (World's Largest) will be held in conjunction with the Naha Matsuri this weekend in Okinawa! The tug-of-war is scheduled for Sunday afternoon!
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No Business; The overreaction is ridiculous, even by Japanese standards.
Pretty insensitive thing to say at such a time. I live directly across the street from Tama River have seen it reach close to the top 2 years ago. This one is expected to be worse. People prepared well, we get comments like yours, people don't prepared well enough and something happens, we get negative comments about that!! Yes, we are well prepared. Enough food, water and shelter for a couple weeks. If the levees hold, well then we don't need to go food shopping for a couple weeks. Win Win.
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Up to 1,000 millimeters of rain is expected in the Tokai region, and 600 mm
This is poor writing or fear mongering. A competent writer or someone not trying to inspire fear would have expressed these as 10 cm and 6 cm.
The overreaction is ridiculous, even by Japanese standards.
Your crystal ball must be allowing you to see that nothing serious will occur. Amazing that you know more than the weather services.
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The overreaction is ridiculous, even by Japanese standards.
I have to agree. However that being said, even down here, where we are more accustomed to these typhoons that up in mainland, things have been getting out of hand here too.
The pendulum has swung totally the "other" way, ever since the tsunami and earthquake in 2011. There never used to be this much hype and fear-mongering. Bringing up pictures and video of the destruction from back in 1958 is scarring people into thinking it's the end of the world.
There is no balance, it's either all or nothing, and the middle ground has been lost, to the media and everyone going apeshite over this typhoon.
Yes, prevention and planning are necessary, yet that should already be a given in a country where natural disasters are unfortunately the norm and should never be considered "unexpected".
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The overreaction is ridiculous, even by Japanese standards.
Better safe than sorry.
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A competent writer or someone not trying to inspire fear would have expressed these as 10 cm and 6 cm.
Err, maybe you need to take Math 101 again?
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Rainfall is usually quoted in mm not cm. And 1000mm is 100cm, actually. Must be early morning fog on the brain. ;-)
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Yubaru
Okinawa is not affected by the typhoon this time. It is far from the mainland Japan where the typhoon is hitting directly. I know the tug of war at Kokusai Street in Okinawa by pictures. It is a wonderful festival. Okinawa's another big festival "Eisa" is held every year in July in Shinjuku, Tokyo too. I saw it and It was very exciting and the event gathers many people every year. Okinawa is hit by typhoons often every year and I see houses there are mostly built by stones in preparation for the strong winds while in mainland Japan, they are in many wooden houses. We must learn from Okinawa.
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This is poor writing or fear mongering. A competent writer or someone not trying to inspire fear would have expressed these as 10 cm and 6 cm.
Your lack of basic maths might see you at risk of flooding by a factor of 10.
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Err, maybe you need to take Math 101 again?
> Rainfall is usually quoted in mm not cm. And 1000mm is 100cm, actually. Must be early morning fog on the brain. ;-)
Your lack of basic maths might see you at risk of flooding by a factor of 10.
Lmao! Agreed! Appreciate the corrections, even with the snark.
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When you’re expecting 10CM of water and 1M flows down on you, you may have a problem.
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Chip Star - This is poor writing or fear mongering. A competent writer or someone not trying to inspire fear would have expressed these as 10 cm and 6 cm.
Wow! Guess you must have been sick the day they taught metric at school. 1,000 millimeters (3’4”) is 1 meter and 600 millimeters is 60cm (2’).
this storm is going to cause some major disruptions and probably a lot of damage to the greater Tokyo region due to its size and intensity. I stocked up a little on drinking water, foods, batteries and GasBomb cans for the cooker, just in case. I did notice quite a bit of stupid panic buying at the supermarket yesterday though. I saw one older couple with two shopping trollies full of bottled water. I guess they intend to bath in it.
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12 Oct 0800 hours location Meguro Tokyo heavy rain and wind but sky is fairly bright nothing haven't seen before did not deter me from walking 5 mins to Family Mart for more wine, that would be cause for alarm.
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Whether this typhoon is the Terror of Tokyo, stay safe everyone. (Even if you're mathematically challenged like me!)
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It's rainy and windy in my area of Kansai, but the worst isn't expected until later this afternoon. I'll wait until the storm moves on before making comments about its severity.
The overreaction is ridiculous,
Interesting that climate change deniers ('western' and 'non-western') continue to try to downplay weather events, even before they happen.
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Tokyo is very vulnerable to heavy rains and floods. During the Edo period, the imeperial place was close at hand to the Tokyo bay. Chiyoda-ku, Edogawa-ku, Koto-ku, Katsushika-ku, Chiyoda-ku and part of Ota-ku, Minato-ku and Shinagawa-ku were built on reclaimed lands of Tokyo Bay. They are called "zero meter areas" above the sea level.
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Just talking about area covered, this typhoon is at least double the size of Typhoon 15 which badly damaged Chiba recently. See comparative maps.
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20191008-00011101-weather-soci.view-001
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Interesting that climate change deniers ('western' and 'non-western') continue to try to downplay weather events, even before they happen.
LOL, I find it interesting that the climate disciples already introduce their climate gospel, even before the event, and without anybody have mentioned any climate. Talk about obsession.
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My son lives in Tokyo. He has a long-cherished (since high school - their relationship survived his five years in America!) girlfriend who still attends college there. I told him to get her over to his apartment and hunker down. When I was ending our call last night, I heard the doorbell ring. Sometimes typhoons are a bit romantic.
But be safe, all, whether in the metric or imperial scale.
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Mods: Please don't delete any of the comments that are snarky towards my lack of mathematics skills. I do not find them impolite at all.
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