Japan Economy and the Weather?

I watch Japanese TV on my tablet every morning. It seems, at times, that half the news is about the weather every five or 10 minutes. There is no doubt that Japan is very vulnerable to extreme changes in weather, as Japan, for the most part, still have a rather significant, but decreasing agricultural industry, so the weather plays a huge part of what happens there. Typhoons, monsoons, mudslides, earthquakes,  and of course the never forgotten, March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami is never far from peoples' minds. The weather can have and other factors, natural disasters,  can have huge affects on the economy as in the Osaka area last year and the Sapporo area last year too. The western side of Japan always seems to get huge snow storms along with the affects of irregular monsoons or rain storms this summer so far and this past spring. All things equal it seems Japan gets more than its share of bad weather every year, that potentially can have huge affects on the economy.



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