Typhoon Usagi?

[AssKissinger]

I thought Japan just used numbers not names. What's up? Is this like a requiem for NOVA or something?

[Taro Toporific]

I thought Japan just used numbers not names. What's up? Is this like a requiem for NOVA or something?

Here's a nice "logical" explanation.

[INDENT]==== Typhoon (Tropical Storm) names====

Few Japanese know that the typhoon No.4 is called as typhoon Man-yi in Asian countries. Even if they know any of it, they may think that it is natural for foreigners to call the typhoon in their ways.

They are awfully mistaken.

Since the end of WWII, Asian countries followed American navy rules about how to call typhoons. In Japan typhoons were also called by American women's names, such as Catherine and Ruth. At that time Americans had major responsibility for the observation of typhoons.

In 1951, Japan restored its virtual independence with San Francisco Peace Treaty. Japan restored its original way of naming typhoons by their yearly numbers though all the other Asian countries continued to follow the American system.

Then, Japan attempted to weaken American influence. But the attempt was almost conspiracy.


1. All the related nations including Japan and the US stop calling typhoons by the American names and agree to introduce the unified name table for the typhoon.

2. The unified name table includes all the languages of participating countries in a fair manner.

In 2000, a treaty for the unified typhoon name table was signed. I now remember that, at that time, I thought it was wonderful. For the first a few months, Japan used unified typhoon names as well as Japanese original typhoon names. But I wondered which way the Japanese government would take at the end.

The end soon came. A few months later, Japan gave up using the unified typhoon name. Since then I have not heard any unified typhoon name in the TV weather forecast program. It is a kind of betrayal.

Other Asian countries may not have known the betrayal. But, even if they knew, they couldn't be helped. The US had already given up their original typhoon naming system, expecting all the countries would use the unified system.

Japan ignores the unified system while other Asian countries use the unified name table that includes even Japanese names (See Note 1). This is none other than a betrayal.

That's nothing new. Japan abetted Asian countries to go to war against Western powers during WWII. But Japan's scale of robbery, carnage and rape against Asian countries was no comparison. Comfort women's case is just a tip of the iceberg.

Japan is walking the same path and I believe Japan is resolute for continuing it. This is the reform that Koizumi and Abe talk of. People may begin feeling that Japan smacks of conspiracy. Japan has had it.


--(Note 1)-- Japanese names that are used in the unified name table---

Japan ignores the unified system while other Asian countries use the unified name table that includes even Japanese names. This is none other than a betrayal. This is one example of the reason why Japan is hated by many Asians.

The table includes some Japanese words, such as Tenbin, Usagi, Kanmuri, Koppu, Tokage, Yagi, Kaziki, Kujira, Kompasu, Washi.


http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/B2.html[/INDENT]

[baka tono]

A typhoon isnt a dog it doesnt give a damn what its name is. Or does it?!

[martindesu]

A typhoon isnt a dog it doesnt give a damn what its name is. Or does it?!

hmmm... not sure about that!

Also, are you telling me a dog cares what it's name is?

[Kuang_Grade]

Hey, AK, where are you seeing this?...I believe that NHK uses typhoon names instead of numbers for their foreign broadcasts (ie, their programing designed for non-japanese) since no one outside Japan would know what the hell they were talking about if they said #5 was bearing down on some country.

[AssKissinger]

Hey, AK, where are you seeing this?...I believe that NHK uses typhoon names instead of numbers for their foreign broadcasts (ie, their programing designed for non-japanese) since no one outside Japan would know what the hell they were talking about if they said #5 was bearing down on some country.

Saw it on daintraweb

[madfuku]

Usagi was a total waste of my time.

I have these really tall bambo things over an inner fence so my dog can't see and thus bark at the 8 or so cops that like to congregate near my house giving people tickets for seat belts every few nice days.

Anyway, I pulled these things down in preparation for the typhoon that never came (to fukuoka) in hot nasty weather. Just finished putting them back up in more hot nasty humid weather.

[Ke11iente]

Usagi was a total waste of my time.

I have these really tall bambo things over an inner fence so my dog can't see and thus bark at the 8 or so cops that like to congregate near my house giving people tickets for seat belts every few nice days.

Anyway, I pulled these things down in preparation for the typhoon that never came (to fukuoka) in hot nasty weather. Just finished putting them back up in more hot nasty humid weather.

First of all, cute dog! Nice to see something other than that little long-haired schnauser thingy that every single freaking person in Japan has.

Secondly, I feel a bit let down by the Typhoons too. The only interesting part about them is watching the poor sods on the news that they send out to stand on a pier in the driving wind and rain to report on the fact that, well, it's really windy and rainy. Nice bit of prize-winning journalism there. TV newscast senpai must be doesu jin, I think.
I've never been in a Typhoon before, so I've kind of wanted to experience it, just like I've felt my first earthquakes since I've been here. It's not like I want anyone to die or anything, I just want something a little more interesting than the usual windy-rain. It's just all been so.... anticlimactic. Completely Unsatisfying.

I think I'll go eat a Snickers.

[madfuku]

I felt like ground hog day. When Man-Yi came through I turned on the news and they where talking about some guy who was thrown off his roof. Fast forward two weeks to Usagi, turn on the news and guess what, they where talking about some guy who was thrown from his roof by the wind.

I was like, what on earth possesses these folks to go up on their roof during a typhoon , didn't the second guy hear about the first guy two weeks earlier .

First of all, cute dog! Nice to see something other than that little long-haired schnauser thingy that every single freaking person in Japan has.

He's my chick magnet Spoiled dog...

I think I'll go eat a Snickers.

Damn, I want a snickers now.

[Mike Oxlong]

Yer doggie a dobie? Not really up on the breeds, but looks a bit thin to be a rottweiler. Used to seeing dobermans cropped & docked. Helluva nice dog, a dobie is.

[madfuku]

Yer doggie a dobie? Not really up on the breeds, but looks a bit thin to be a rottweiler. Used to seeing dobermans cropped & docked. Helluva nice dog, a dobie is.

Yeah he's 100% pure Doberman from a breeder in Pennsylvania. His ears are cropped, I just didn't force them up when he was a pup because I thought he looked pretty unique left down. Plus it wasn't too common to see a Doberman with ears like that.

Don't let the cute looks fool you, if he doesn't know you he's all business he spent 8 months at a K9 training school, no kidding, his best trick is scaring the shit out of you.

He can read me pretty well so if I am cool he is all laid back and gentle to people I am talking to. It's funny, I had him in the middle of the city one night and Japanese on the street where crowding him with people hugging and kissing him, they never where able to interact with this type of dog as they are not very common in Japan.

As luck would have it, my neighbor (the 60ish farmer dude) adopted a retired US military Doberman from one of the bases here in Japan. He was a part time dog trainer for the Japanese Police and Military, so that help us hit it off despite the cultural and age gap.

[Mike Oxlong]

Cool! A good friend brought a dobie in from Canada a dozen years back now. Quarantined for a couple weeks. Worked out well in the end. Best damn dog I ever did know.