“…Windblown leafhoppers, major pests of rice plants, are carried by low atmospheric pressure systems moving from eastern China to Japan with westerly winds (Kisimoto, 1983;Iwanaga et al, 1985;Crummay & Atkinson, 1997;Syobu & Mikuriya, 2000). A major vector of JEV, Culex tritaeniorhynchus, is known to be carried for long distances by winds (Ming et al, 1993), and it was collected by observatory ships on the East China Sea and on the northwest Pacific, 500 km south of Honshu island, Japan (Asahina, 1970).…”