[O-03] How to cope with meteorological disasters under rapidly changing climate

[O03-03] Utilization of typhoon data before the middle 20th century

★Invited Papers

*Fumiaki Fujibe¹ (1.Department of Geography, Tokyo Metropolitan University)

Keywords:typhoon, database, data collection

There were a number of strong typhoons that caused wind and rain disaster in Japan before the middle 20th century. For example, a typhoon attacked southern Kyushu on 15 August 1899, destroying sixteen thousand houses in Kagoshima Prefecture. On 28 September 1902, another typhoon attacked the Kanto area, destroying twenty thousand houses in Ibaraki Prefecture. Issues in using data from typhoons before the mid-20th century as lessons for future disasters will be discussed.