After Typhoon Vera, also known as the Isewan Typhoon, struck Japan in September 1959, local history researcher Kaneo Ogawa dedicated the next few months of his life to photographing the aftermath in his hometown.
The typhoon is estimated to have killed more than 5,000 people, making Vera the deadliest typhoon in Japanese history.
In Ogawa's hometown of Minami Ward in Nagoya, the typhoon led to the deaths of some 1,417 people.
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