a) Singapore
b) Vietnam
c) China
d) None of these
Typhoon Haishen made landfall over southern Japan on September 6, 2020, becoming the country’s second landfalling typhoon within a week. Japan’s meteorological agency has referred to the tropical storm as “large” and “very strong”. The JMA numbers typhoons in Japan and the first typhoon to occur after January 1st of the year is called typhoon number 1. While in the US, hurricanes are referred to by English names, the intergovernmental organisation called the Typhoon Committee (Cambodia, China, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Hong Kong, Japan; Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Macao, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and the United States of America), which has 14 members including Japan uses Asian names for typhoons that are contributed by the member countries. Haishen was a name recommended by China and means “sea god” in Chinese.