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Article: Travel: The Big Buddha show; TOKYO PUTS THE "OO" IN TYPHOON SAYS IAIN MAYHEW.(Features)
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- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 6, 2003
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Byline: IAIN MAYHEW
THERE'S a typhoon rolling up the east coast of Japan, and Tokyo is already a sea of colourful umbrellas, bobbing and weaving along streets lined with neon-lit shops and huge office buildings.
Mr Shimimoto - or Shimmy-san, as he prefers to be called - cheerfully explains that Japan has 20 typhoons a year.
What's more, he says, the country has dozens of earth tremors every day and Tokyo is waiting for the Big One because a major earthquake strikes the city every 300 years and the last one was in 1700. "Exciting, yes?" says ...