Japan Faces Her "Unluckiest Day"
Tokyo, Sept. 10, Japan today faced~her "unluckiest day," which falls tomorrow, hoping to be spared of fresh disasters in a year which already has been unusual~ severe in typhoons, floods and other natural calamities.
'Tomorrow is the 220th day since New Year's Day in the old calendar and is popularly called "typhoon day' when Japanese should stoically await] Whatever fate decrees.
Japan's other unlucky day fell on September 1 when the most severe typhoon in 22 years battered Tokyo and extensively damaged rice and other crops.
A second typhoon blasted Shikoku Island) on September 5, and with others forming in the South Seas further attacks are feared.
Disasters in Difficult Times Japan's year of natural disasters came at a time when she could least alford it because of the heavy expenditure in the China campaign and mounting dimeulties of foreign trade.
Damages (rom the disasters amount~ ed to scores of millions of yeu. Most' of the losses were suffered by the poor class of Japanese who are strug-ling to keep abreast of the increasing. Tiving costs.
Government railroads have also. been heavily hit. Approximately 100,000 miles of track have been dis abled. Rice, silk and bean production, have been impaired as a result of Mount' Asama's frequent _voleanic eruptions which sprayed ashes on Valuable mulberry bushes.
Fortunately for Japan, Formosa has reported a bumper rice' crop.
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