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Despite a very rare tornado touching down in the northeast part of Japan on May 6, 2012, Japan's weather agency predicts more are on the way!
One young boy was killed, with about 40 injuries and damages to about 1,000 homes and building when tornadoes struck Ibaraki-ken and Tochigi-ken.
According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the country could see more tornadoes on Thursday, May 9, 2012, prompted by heavy rains and atmospheric conditions just like what it saw on Sunday.
While tornadoes (tatsumaki) in Japan aren’t that common, a say, earthquakes, tsunami, Godzilla attacks and volcanic eruptions, they do occur more often than people are aware.
According to data from the Japan Meteorological Agency, there were roughly 40 windstorms that were classified as tornadoes last year. In fact, a tornado in Kagoshima-ken killed three people last November. Of the 40 tornado categorized as such in 2011, there were 33 injuries.
The weather agency also warned that the rain clouds moving up to the eastern region could also produce hail.
Damage in Ibaraki-ken after tornado.
Hail and tornadoes. Oh my Buddha, Japan. Who did you piss off?
I would suggest parking one's car under a shelter so the hail doesn't damage it, but with Japan's current luck, the tornado will stop by first and rip off all of the shelter roofs.
“Tornadoes are unusual in this region,” says a spokesperson at the Japan Meteorological Agency, pretty much repeating what Japan - It's A Wonderful Rife has already stated. “They’re pretty unusual even in Japan.”
If the weather agency is correct, the threat of hail and tornadoes should pass by May 10, 2012. Of course, where else does one keep their job by being correct 50% of the time, and never having to apologize for being wrong?
Facts:
Japan uses the Fujita Scale to measure tornado strength, from 0 to 5.
Prior to the Ibaraki-ken/Tochigi-ken tornadoes this past weekend, the last tornado to hit was in February in Okinawa. It was an F0, with wind speeds of 17- to 32- meters per second (38- to 71.5-miles per hour).
The Ibaraki/Tochigi tornadoes have been classified as an F2, with wind speeds between 50- and 69- meters per second (112- to 154.3-mph). This wind storm could still be upgraded.
The strongest tornado on record (as of 1961) was in November 9, 2006 that hit Saroma, in Hokkaido, killing nine people and injuring 31. It was originally classified as an F2, but later reclassified an F3.
Tornadoes have hit the northeastern part of Japan killing a 14-year-old boy in Tsukuba-shi (Tsukuba City) in Ibaraki-ken (Ibaraki Prefecture), Japan on Monday, May 7, 2012.
Hitting at around 12:45 PM, an unidentified boy 14-year-old boy died as a result of the tornado, said a spokesman at the disaster headquarters of Tsukuba, located about 60 kilometers northeast of Tokyo.
The exact cause of death is not known. Some 36 others were either rushed to hospital or sought aid after the tornado hit. Numbers are expected to rise.
According to reports, power has been cut to over 20,000 homes in the area.
Best guesses say there is damage to about 500 buildings in the area, mostly affecting Ibaraki and Tochigi-ken (Tochigi Prefecture) according to broadcaster NHKand the Yomiuri Shinbun (Yomiuri Newspaper).
According to the Tsukuba fire and emergency bureau, 30 to 50 homes were destroyed by the twister with many more damaged.
Moka-shi (Moka City) in neighbouring Tochigi prefecture reported one injury and damage to 132 buildings after it was hit by a separate tornado.
A number of minor injuries were also reported in Tochigi, while a swathe of eastern Japan was battered by strong winds, hail, lightning and heavy rain.
Television footage from Tsukuba showed houses swept from their foundations, overturned cars in muddy debris and fallen concrete power poles.
Japan's weather agency issued warnings for a wide region in the east of the country, urging people to seek shelter in case of sudden winds and thunder.
The day after I spent a ton of money (¥40,000 or $520 US/Cdn) to impress my ex-girlfriend, but current friend-with-benefits with a Thanksgiving dinner. You ever eat a turkey in Japan? Near impossible... but I did it with the help of my boss Hanazaki-san (Mr. Hanazaki). Thank-you internationalization.
Ashley - who had said a week earlier that she would come by - did not.
I am concerned. Is she hurt. Dead? Sick? No clue... Out on a date? With friends? It could happen...
Am I worried? No. I have an alibi. Mr. Hanazaki helped me get the dinner and all the fixin's and helped me get it to my apartment from another city! Yes! We had to go to another city to make the damn dinner (Yaita) because my city (Ohtawara) had no restaurant that knew anyone that 1) could get a turkey, and 2) knew how to cook a turkey. Me? Apparently I knew 3) how to pine for a turkey.
Also, Matthew came by at 8:30PM and while I may not have been my usual chum bucket of pal, I was still a decent enough friend who made him eat left-over lasagne while the turkey dinner chilled in my fridge. I said I was sorry, buddy!!!!
I'm up at 10AM because Hanazaki-san is coming over to pick-up my 'fan-heater'... this is a gas heater. I don't want the damn thing as apparently after you start up the kerosene heater, you are supposed to open up a window or sliding door so that you don't die from the fumes... but doesn't opening up the door or window let in more cold? Yes. Sometimes Japan's insistence on things is a little wonky to this gaijin (foreigner) from Canada. I, of course, rather than freeze to death, chose the risk of dying from gas poisoning. It didn't work, but at least I felt warm. My extremities feel a little numb, though.
Still... Hanazaki-san can have it. I'm getting a new AC/Heating unit soon! And my poor boss - he says he always feels cold in Ohtawara's winter. I didn't want to correct him by saying it's not winter yet - after all, it's on his say-so that the OBOE (Ohtawara Board of Education) is buying me money allotted for me via the JET (Japan Exchange & Teaching Programme). Though never confirmed, apparently the rumor is that one's board of education is allotted ¥100,000 (~Cdn/US $1294) a year to spent on their AET (assistant English teacher) any way they see fit.
My office likes me and often buys me stuff I want. I have a bilingual stereo TV so I can watch TV in Japanese or English. You need a bilingual TV as some stations will transmit two signals of the same show... so I can watch The Incredible Hulk (1970s), Knight Rider (1980s) all I want. Fortunately, they have the excellent Sherlock Holmes show on for me to wrap my murderous little hands around. I also now have a Queen-sized bed after complaining about how the futon was bothering my weak back. It's much better now, and I no longer get tatami (grass mat) burns on my knees when I have sex.
Before he comes over... I clean up and try calling Ashley's place. No answer. Still no call display as of 1991. Someone should invent it. Maybe I should and become a thousandaire!
Where the hell is she?
Hanazaki-san arrives, and immediately asks me how my surprise date with Ashley went. I tell him everything. He sucks a lot of air through his teeth in shock and dismay. He really wants me to be happy and wonders if we should call the police.
Oh god, no, I think, perhaps a tad out loud. Instead, he calls her bosses... who also know about my troubles with her. She mistakenly believes her lie that she and I have only always been friends. You know what impressed me? Hanazaki-san knew her bosses' phone number by heart.
They hadn't seen her either but promised to put out calls to others to see if they knew where she was. Oh god... what have I done? What if she's just out with some other guy? She can - we're supposed to be friends-with-benefits - though she should have canceled our Friday night together if she had other plans. It's stuff like this why I wasn't overly broken up when she broke up with me claiming I was smothering her - despite her being at my place 4-6 days a week. This is not an exaggeration. It is reality, despite my attempts at humor.
I help Hanazaki-san take the heater to his white car. He smiles weakly and says he will let me know if he finds anything out about Ashley. Dammit! Now he has me concerned. A lot. Though I secretly wish she just forgot about her agreement to be at my place for dinner. It would finally drive home the point that I can do better and deserve better than her... and then I really can move on.
I go inside and call again. Nothing.
While I am busy eating an 8-piece bacon sandwich at around 4:30PM, Mr. Endo calls me up and asks if I want to teach an English class for ¥5000 (~Cdn/US $64.70). Sure what the hell. It will take my mind of Ashley, right?
I call her place every 15 minutes.
In my head, should she be all right, I plan on playing it cool... saying how I was expecting her to come over... gentle like... before casually saying that I had a dinner specially made for her... I play it over and over in my head until I am sure I have the coolness factor down pat.
At the night school English class - it's advanced adults - so I talk about Canada and myself and my family... and then ask if I am so different from themselves. Thankfully they all say we are all quite similar. Thank-you internationalization.
I go home at 8:30PM and phone Matthew and then Ashley - no one answers.
Alone, I go to the 4C bar about a five minute stagger from my apartment. I have seven beers and some French fries in a little over an hour - obviously I have no plans for picking up a woman and screwing her brains out in anger or frustration.
I leave the 4C after giving the boss a ¥2000 (Cdn/US $25.90) tip... something that is never done in Japan - but I told him I needed to feel like I was home, and I needed to give him a tip. Humoring me, he allowed it - though I'm pretty sure he under-charged me by ¥2000 anyway. Everybody wins. Thank-you internationalization.
I go home and open my fridge and stare at the uneaten turkey dinner as I sway in drunken confusion about what the heck is going on with Ashley.
Somewhere feeling numb, Andrew Joseph Today's blog is by Three Dog Night:
Here's a good write-up from my friend Mike Rogers on the snowstorm that recently hit Japan hard this week. Please check out his blog at MARKETING JAPAN.
All the more bizarre when Toronto in Canada - the so-called great white north, it was 8C on February 1, 2012.
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