Articles of category "Japanese weather"

Visiting Japan can be enjoyable in every season of the year if you are not afraid of a nasty weather that we sometimes have in any part of our planet. The Japanese distinguish the period of a nasty weather, rains and typhoons as a separate rainy season, additional to the common four seasons of the year. For all that, Japan is a temperate region with an average temperature 30°C for the summer time and 4.7°C for the winter.

Since the Japanese archipelago is located in an area where several continental and oceanic meet, there are frequent earthquakes and many volcanoes and hot springs across Japan. If earthquakes occur below or near the ocean, they might trigger tidal waves or a tsunami. Many of us, who live in tectonically quiet regions, would consider it strange to keep a survival kit for the case of emergency. However, every household in Japan does so.