THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 28, 2019 at 17:25 JST
Rice plants are seen lodged down and withered before harvesting in Marumori, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 23. (Shinjiro Omiya)
The amount of damage to the agriculture, forestry and fisheries industry wrought by Typhoon No. 15 and No. 19, which devastated eastern Japan this autumn, topped 170 billion yen ($1.56 billion) as of Oct. 27, according to the government’s calculation. [Read More]
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