Paper:
Tornado Disaster 2012 in Northern Kanto and the Features of Tornado Disasters in Japan
Junji Maeda and Eriko Tomokiyo
Faculty of Human-Environment Studies, Kyushu University, 6-10-1, Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan
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