Chapter 372 – An Autumn of Meager Harvests

Autumn. The season of harvest.

At least, it should have been.

Instead, this year would bring a catastrophic crop failure.

Summer has been unusually cool throughout the entire Japanese archipelago. Tohoku had been hit especially hard, and the Pacific coast suffered the worst of it.

The truth was, however, that this year’s crop failure had been predictable ever since the previous winter.

First, Tohoku experienced exceptionally heavy snowfall during the winter. As a result, preparations for the seedbeds and the sowing of rice were delayed. The weather remained less than favorable afterward, and then the abnormally low temperatures that began at the end of July brought an unprecedented cold-weather disaster to the Tohoku region.

Naturally, we had implemented every countermeasure against cold-weather damage that we possibly could. The memories of the poor harvest in 1931 were still fresh, so the farming