Typhoon #17

This one was difficult due to a lot of really long sentences, some technical phrases I've never encountered before, and some unclear grammatical tenses (the typhoon is happening now, but in Japan, which is still tomorrow for California). The original is found here via NHK News Web.

Typhoon #17 – Amami region is the storm region

The extremely strong Typhoon #17 has enveloped the Okinawa main island region and the Amami region of Kagoshima prefecture, and is moving north.

A violent wind is blowing on the Okinawa main island, and a maximum instantaneous wind speed of more than 50 meters is being observed.

According to an announcement by the Meteorological Agency, the extremely strong Typhoon #17 will progress on the sea 40 kilometers north-northwest of Naha City at a speed of 25 kilometers per hour on the 29^th at 11am. The central air pressure is 930 hectopascals, the center’s maximum wind speed is 45 meters, the maximum instantaneous wind speed is 65 meters, and the storm is blowing at a speed of more than 25 meters as the southeast side of the center is more than 220 kilometers and the northwest side of the center is more than 190 kilometers.

Now, the Okinawa main island region and the Amami region of Kagoshima prefecture have become a storm area. At Kumejima Airport before 10am, a maximum instantaneous wind speed of 55 meters was observed, and in addition, maximum instantaneous wind speeds of 50.4 meters in Naha at 9am and 42.5 meters around 10:30am in Nago City were also observed.

Intermittently, rain is also becoming strong, and at Kumejima Airport until 10am, an extremely violent rain will fall at 55.5 milliliters per hour.

The typhoon is continuing its course getting closer to the Okinawa main island, and is expected to advance northeast to the Amami region of Kagoshima prefecture by evening.

For Okinawa and Amami, a violent wind will blow on the 29^th, the maximum wind speed is 45 meters, the maximum instantaneous wind speed is 60 meters, and there is a forecast that the sea will become violent with waves 12 meters tall.

Additionally, along with thunder, an extremely violent rain of more than 50 milliliters per hour will fall, and there is the fear that locally, violent rain of more than 80 milliliters per hour will fall.

Even in the southern region of Kyushu, along with thunder, there is the fear of extremely violent rain, and the amount of rain that will fall by the morning of the 30^th is expected to be great in both the Okinawa and Amami regions (300 milliliters) as well as the southern region of Kyushu (230 milliliters).

Now, in order for the tide level to hit the time of the high spring tide, there is a high danger that the Okinawa main island will flood through the evening through the high tide.

Along with strict precautions for increased water in rivers due to the storm and high waves, high tides, and flooding of low lands, the Meteorological Agency is calling for sufficient caution for lightning and tornados as well. 

Senkaku Islands Dispute

This has been in the news a lot recently. Original text is here, from the Daily Yomiuri online, accessed Sept. 28th, 2012.

“It belongs to China” – The Senkaku Problem is a full-page advertisement in Western newspapers

[Washington – Kentaro Nakajima] China’s English-language newspaper China Daily published a full-page advertisement on the 28^th in main newspapers such as the Washington Post and New York Times with the headline “Diaoyu Islands [the Chinese name for Senkaku] Belong to China.”

The advertisement said that the Senkaku Islands have been China’s territory since time immemorial, and that there has been no margin to contest the sovereignty China has been endowed with; the Chinese government expanded this assertion by saying, “‘Nationalization’ according to Japan infringes on China’s sovereignty, and negates the effects of the Second Sino-Japanese War [1937-1945—tr.].”

Ichiro Fujizaki, the Japanese ambassador to the United States, held a press conference on the 28^th concerning the publication of the advertisement. He stated, “Accepting one-sided arguments in American newspapers causes misunderstanding,” as well as clarifying his objections to the Washington Post. Each consulate-general protested the publication of the advertisement as well.” 

Japanese Translation

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