The Japan Meteorological Agency issued tornado alerts for Shizuoka Prefecture on May 1, first for the Izu region, and later expanded it to other regions. Atmospheric instability was observed ...

Reuters Tornado-like winds whipped up by the typhoon ... told the BBC he had "lived through a few typhoons" during seven years in Japan. "I feel like this time Japan, generally, has taken this ...

Japan's weather agency has warned of possible landslides, flooding and violent winds, as well as high tides, lightning and tornadoes in the areas affected. The country is regularly struck by major ...

Ted Fujita was a Japanese-American engineer turned meteorologist. He immersed himself in research on tornadoes and introduced the “Fujita Scale”, a six-point scale to classify degrees of ...