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1771 Great Yaeyama Tsunami
It caused more than 13000 deaths and happened in Ishigaki Island and Miyako Island. -
Great Unzen disaster
It causes more than 15000 deaths and it happened in Mount Unzen Kyushu. The eruption triggered an earthquake and a tsunami. -
1828 Siebold typhoon
There are 19113 deaths. It happened in Northen Kyushu Island and this is the worst storm hit in Japanese history. -
Great Ansei earthquake
It caused more than 7000 deaths and happened in Tokyo. It is also known as the great Edo earthquake. -
Typhoon Vera
It caused 5098 deaths and happened mainly, Ise Bay, Aichi Prefecture and Mie Prefecture. It is also known as Ice Bay Typhoon. -
Mino–Owari earthquake
There were 7273 deaths and happened in Mino province. There were over 3000 aftershocks were reported after the event. -
1896 Sanriku earthquake
There are 21959 deaths in this earthquake. Maximum 28 meters of the tsunami in Iwate Prefecture, and 9 meters reached the Hawaiian coastline. -
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Great Kanto earthquake
The earthquake happens in Kanto Planis, Honshu and causes 105385 deaths. It is the deadliest disaster in Japanese history. -
Great Hanshin earthquake
It caused 6434 deaths and happened in Awaji Island, near Kobe and is also known as the Kobe earthquake. -
Tohoku earthquake and tsunami
This event caused 15897 deaths and it happened 72km east of Oshika Peninsula Tohoku. Costliest natural disaster in recorded world history, estimated at up to $235 billion by the World Bank.