About twenty years have passed since the wind environment was taken up as a social problem in Japan. The physical phenomena of strong and uncomfortable winds caused bytall buildings have been studied and, to some extent, resolved over the years.
On the other hand, the social phase of the wind environment still remains because of this problem's complexity and difficulty.
The author want to report the status quo of the wind environment in Japan, through examples of wind environment damage, how to establish a comfort criteria, the present state of wind tunnel testing, and examples of research in which he participated.
