| has gloss | eng: Super Typhoon Vera (international designation: 5915) was the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history. With winds of 160 mph, Vera slammed into the southeastern coast of Japan in Wakayama Prefecture and then proceeded northeast across Honshu, causing widespread damage and flooding. 5,098 people were killed in Japan with an additional 38,921 people injured. Typhoons in Japan are generally numbered each year (Typhoon Number 1, Typhoon Number 2, etc.), but because of its destructiveness, the Japan Meteorological Agency named this typhoon the because much of the destruction was caused by flooding around Ise Bay near the city of Nagoya. |
