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> Typhoon Ida, known in Japan as Makurazaki Typhoon (枕崎台風), was a powerful and very deadly typhoon that formed over the western Pacific Ocean and struck Japan in September 1945, shortly after the Japanese surrender in World War II, causing over 2,000 deaths.

The Pacific fleet left immediately after the formal surrender was signed on September 2, 1945, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Had they stayed, they would have been wiped out. As you might know, tsunamis occur with little to no warning so it's not a weather event they could have forecast.