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Do Japanese ever assign a name to a typhoon, or are they always numbered? In
most countries the name is more commonly used.
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Are typhoons more commonly referred to by number or name?
Yes, they are named according to the conventions, but colloquially they are
more or less always referred to by their ordinal number (reset every year).

The only place I personally can remember having seen the names mentioned in
Japanese is on the website of Japan's Meteorological Agency (JMA). See e.g.
this one:

台風第{たいふうだい｝12号｛ごう｝ (ジョンダリ)

<http://www.jma.go.jp/jp/typh/>

The JMA has the official responsibility of naming Typhoons in the vicinity of
Japan, where they cycle through a list of names. However there is also the
PAGASA (Philippines) "unofficially" naming some of them. For details, please
see the extensive Wiki article:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone_naming#Western_Pacific_Ocean_(180%C2%B0_%E2%80%93_100%C2%B0E)>
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