Tsunami victims rest was devastated after observing a minute of silence at 14: 46 local time at a shelter in Watari, Miyagi Prefecture, 22 April 2011. area by the massive earthquake of 9.0, which on 11 March 14:46 local time and tsunami hit. Victims in this shelter observe a minute of silence every day.
Credit: Reuters/Toru HanaiBy Tetsushi Kajimoto and Linda victoryTOKYO | Fri Apr 22, 2011 3:41 pm EDT
Tokyo (Reuters) - Japan's Cabinet approved nearly $50 billion of expenditure for post earthquake reconstruction, a down payment on the country's largest public works on Friday effort in six decades.
Emergency of budget 4 trillion yen ($48.5 billion), which probably followed expenditures are packages, by further reconstruction is the shadow still provided by the total cost of the 11 March earthquake caused damage and tsunami, estimated at $300 billion.
"With this budget, we take a step forward in the direction of reconstruction... and in the direction of the economy, restart" Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda told reporters after a cabinet meeting.
Financing the next packages are much more difficult that they should control a mix to include and borrowing Japanese debt load could weigh on economy.
Control when Prime Minister Naoto Kan, weakened by poor polls and in the close constant not can critique, the laws by the Parliament, he can be forced to step down, analysts say.
The earthquake of magnitude 9.0 and 15 m (50-ft) tsunami that followed caused Japan's worst crisis since World War two, to kill up to 28,000 people and destroying thousands of houses.
It smashed also a nuclear power plant that radiation leaking started a situation that says the plant operators could take to bring under control throughout the year.
The budget is presented to Parliament next week and is expected to be adopted in May.
"Caused great problems"
Prime Minister Kan, who was accused, of his own party of opposition politicians and Quake response of triple disaster, no need to take survivors, command of the country, is to create an opportunity for national "rebirth." said
A Jiji news agency poll showed kan's support rate amounted to 20.5 percent, plus a little 1.6 points over the previous month, with more than three out of four voters say that he had exercised little or even no leadership on the nuclear crisis. About 57 percent said they were a tax rise for the financing of reconstruction 38.6%, are not supported.
Released in a Reuters poll of private investors Friday 83 percent of those polled said they rejected or strongly disapproved of the administration handling of the crisis.
Northeast of the country as well as the attempt, which destroyed rebuild, Japan has also with the world's worst nuclear crisis since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, to fight the destruction of the Fukushima Daiichi plant, 240 km (150 miles) from Tokyo.
Radiation spilled out of the facility after a hydrogen explosion, and in their fight to cool the fuel melting engineers pumped radioactive water in the Pacific, a move that worried Japan's neighbors about the spread of contamination.
Masataka Shimizu, the much-criticized President of the operator Tokyo electric power (TEPCO), visited an evacuation Center for the first time since the disaster struck, kneeling and bowing deeply in the evacuated.
"I want to work hard, so that you can go home," he said. Mostly muted evacuated pleaded with him, to the crisis to end Express, so that she could return to their homes. "I want to do, as if it had happened to your own family," said a man.
Earlier, excused Shimizu in person's dressed in blue clothes, Fukushima local Governor Yuhei Sato.
"I apologize from my heart for the great effort that many people in society arise," he said.
Shimizu's company has the dangers to downplay and ignore warnings about the risk one Quake and tsunami striking the plant, accused been as also react bad to the damage.
Japan said this week it someone in a 20 km (12 miles) evacuation zone to Fukushima Daiichi would ban.
Kan has to leave residents in some areas outside this zone to prevent radiation instructed, Japan's top Government spokesman Yukio Edano said on Friday, but it is unclear how many people affected.
"We have not the number." We will work with local authorities in drawing up this data, "Said an official with Japan's nuclear and industrial Agency."
(Additional reporting by Kazunori Takada;) Letter from Daniel Magnowski; (Editing by Alex Richardson)
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