Greetings from Yoshie.

I attached  the photos showing the damage by typhoon No.9 in Hyogo, Japan with this mail.

More than one week has passed after the attack of typhoon, however, we need more time to go back to normal. Old beautiful houses are destroyed by the water and train rails are suspended in the air due to the mud slide.

As you know, people in Taiwan were affected more by the Typhoon No.8 Morkot.
Following report is from Doris to you:

I feel very sad to share with you the serious effect brought by Typhoon Morakot!  You may see the relevant news on CNN : http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/weather/08/07/typhoon.morakot/index.html

And you may get a rough understanding on the damage caused by Typhoon Morkot in the report on http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=a4rGseWOgSKQ

In Taiwan, Morakot damaged more than NT$4.2 billion ($128 million) in agricultural production after the worst rains on record, the government said.   Fifty-one people were missing and 32 injured as of 12 p.m. local time today, according to Taiwan’s National Fire Administration. Taiwan’s banana crop was the most severely affected with 4,431 hectares destroyed as of 9 a.m. today, the Council of Agriculture said.