SHIZUOKA -- Takamasa Yamazaki could only sigh as he looked at the damage to a wall for his terraced wasabi paddies.
"Who knows how many years it will take before everything can be back to normal," said Yamazaki, one of the many farmers whose livelihood has been threatened by the record torrential rain from Typhoon No. 15 that battered the central and western parts of Shizuoka Prefecture in September.
