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"It took only 2 hours to destroy my orchards...," he told us. "It wasn't the rain destroyed my orchards, but the incredible wind that blew up the sea water to the orchards," he said. His damaged area was more than 500 meters away form the seaside. But the strong wind with the sea water destroyed about the half of his operation. "It took only 2 hours to destroy my orchards I dedicated my 14 years of time and hard work." In 1991, Nakajima Town suffered from an enormous typhoon, a severe tropical hurricane occurring in the western Pacific or the China Sea, and it left the damaged of 1499 acres for farming area and 73.8 billion yen of loss for orange growers. It was a turning point for everyone who related to the industry. Some of my friends whose fathers had to give up farming and move to cities. And still, the disaster is causing the decrease of population in our town every year. |
