Products are soaked in a typhoon and the machine does not move.

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In Tateyama, Chiba City, was severely damaged by the typhoon No. 15, also has come out the store decided to go out of business without stand prospect of recovery.

In the futon store of Masayuki Hasegawa (74), who has been operating in Tateyama City for over 50 years, the roof of the building that doubled as the home and the store flew by the influence of typhoon No. 15, and the room was flooded. The product was also discarded because it was wet.

There was also a factory that made futons on the site, but the machine got wet in the rain and stopped working, and the futons could not be redesigned.

Because the amount of damage even with the discarded futon alone will exceed 5 million yen, there is no prospect that it will be profitable even if new machines are introduced in the future, Mr. Hasegawa will give up resuming the store and will be closed I decided.

Mr. Hasegawa said, “I was very disappointed because I suddenly went out of business due to a typhoon when I wanted to continue the futon store.”

The Tateyama Chamber of Commerce is conducting an urgent survey of small and medium-sized businesses in the city, and is planning to summarize the damage caused by typhoons and the impact on sales due to power outages.