The prime minister faces not just the nuclear cleanup and disaster reconstruction, but an economy facing intense pressure.
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The editorial appeals for a national commitment to reach beyond disaster reconstruction to design a new program for revitalization for Japan as a whole.
The government needs to clearly write this measure into the FY 2011 second supplemental budget bill dealing with disaster reconstruction, now being debated in the Diet.
The government must set up a separate budgetary account for disaster reconstruction expenditures and receipts of temporary tax proceeds, to enable close public oversight and auditing.
Shilling points to the deteriorating current account caused, inter alia, by increased energy imports and the costs of disaster recovery and reconstruction.
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Meanwhile, Japan, the second-largest foreign holder of U.S. Treasury bonds (after China), will likely have to sell off some those investments to finance disaster relief and reconstruction efforts.
Accordingly, in respect of urgent disaster relief and reconstruction, the sterile day-and-night tactically political maneuvering between political parties must be replaced by a new effective supra-party organization framework.
The reductions will result from additional taxes to pay for 3.11 disaster recovery and reconstruction, abolition of the child-raising stipends, and increases in the state pension insurance premiums.
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Among the five Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) candidates for party leadership, and the office of prime minister, Noda, having served for two years as minister or deputy minister of finance, was the only one to advocate a temporary tax increase to fund 3.11 disaster recovery and reconstruction.
You end up with a disaster, like the reconstruction efforts in Iraq.
But along with our efforts on reconstruction from the disaster, we will be working on those challenges which have been pointed out even since before the earthquake.
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Science, engineering and technology (SET) drives sustainable social and economic Development and is vital in addressing basic human needs including poverty reduction, emergency and disaster prevention, response and reconstruction, bridging the knowledge divide and promoting intercultural cooperation.
Beyond the influx of reconstruction funds, the disaster has helped open the purse strings of people in the afflicted areas.
Both the ruling and main opposition parties have seen support ratings tumble to less than 15% amid charges they mismanaged disaster response and dragged their feet on reconstruction, according to polls from the Mainichi newspaper.
Prior to the disaster his administration had been under political fire for the slow pace of government reconstruction after the February earthquake and tsunami along Chile's south and central coast, and for his handling of a hunger strike by members of the Mapuche indigenous group of southern Chile, who are fighting for independence.
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