Japan was vulnerable after the Second World War, so we had many natural disasters, especially Typhoon disasters, from 1945 to 1959. Some call this 15 years a great flood and storm era. The first hit was Typhoon Makurazaki on September 15, 1945*. The typhoon hit Hiroshima city. There were 1229 casualties in the city. This fact reminds us of what happened in Hiroshima in the same year. The atomic bomb hit Hiroshima city this August. We had no weather forecast system during the war because of military reasons. The people in Hiroshima were living in vulnerable houses because the bomb hardly hit them. They did not have enough information about the typhoon’s coming, either. Therefore, this typhoon disaster is a complex disaster consisting of natural, technological, and human-made disasters.

*Hiroshima Pref. Website:
http://www.bousai.pref.hiroshima.jp.e.bq.hp.transer.com/www/contents/1318849427179/index.html
http://www.pref.hiroshima.lg.jp.e.bq.hp.transer.com/soshiki/100/makurazaki.html

**A Blank in the Weather Map by Kunio Yanagida

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Blank_in_the_Weather_Map