{"id":2364,"date":"2025-08-22T09:53:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T00:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.plat-clover.com\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2025-07-10T13:18:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T04:18:40","slug":"%e3%80%8c%e5%8f%b0%e9%a2%a8%e3%80%8d%e3%81%a3%e3%81%a6%e3%81%a9%e3%82%93%e3%81%aa%e3%82%82%e3%81%ae%ef%bc%9f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.plat-clover.com\/en\/archives\/2364","title":{"rendered":"What is a typhoon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">If you live in Japan, you will often hear the word &quot;typhoon&quot; every summer and autumn.<br>Typhoons are a type of natural disaster that brings heavy rain and strong winds.<br>Every year, several typhoons approach or make landfall in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u3010\u3010<strong>Typhoon? Hurricane? Cyclone?<\/strong>\u3011<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The word &quot;typhoon&quot; is used in Japan and Asia,<br>In fact, the same phenomenon is called by different names depending on the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u3007Asia, including Japan, China, and the Philippines:<strong>Typhoon<\/strong><br>America, the Caribbean, etc.:<strong>Hurricane<\/strong><br>India, Australia, etc.:<strong>Cyclone<\/strong><br>Although it is called differently,<strong>A large low pressure system brings strong winds and rain<\/strong>In that respect, they are all similar.<br><br>\u3010\u3010<strong>What are the characteristics of typhoons in Japan?<br><\/strong>Typhoons mainly occur in the seas east of the Philippines.<br>\u3007It will move north and approach the Japanese archipelago.<br>\u3007It occurs most frequently from summer to autumn (around June to October).<br>Because there are many mountains, landslides and river floods are likely to occur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>[What makes it different from American hurricanes?]<br><\/strong>Hurricanes form in the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico.<br>They can be large and can cause storm surges and tornadoes in coastal areas.<br>Both are dangerous natural disasters, so you need to be well prepared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&quot;Typhoons,&quot; &quot;hurricanes,&quot; and &quot;cyclones&quot; may have different names, but they are all powerful forces of nature.<br>You need to be careful with typhoons in Japan, especially in areas with many mountains and rivers.<br>Get the right information, be well prepared, and stay safe!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you live in Japan, you often hear the word &quot;typhoon&quot; every summer and autumn. Typhoons bring heavy rain and strong winds.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.plat-clover.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.plat-clover.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.plat-clover.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.plat-clover.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.plat-clover.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.plat-clover.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2368,"href":"https:\/\/blog.plat-clover.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions\/2368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.plat-clover.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.plat-clover.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.plat-clover.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.plat-clover.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}