Japanese Prime Minister, Yoshihiko Noda, has been visiting disaster-hit areas, in a gesture of hands-on politics. It's been almost six months since the country's devastating earthquake and tsunami.
Noda went to Fukushima, the site of the on-going nuclear crisis, and to a fishing town where over 14-hundred people were killed or remain missing since March. He then went to western Japan, where tropical storm Talas has left 100 dead or missing. In July, Japan passed a second special reconstruction budget of 166 billion US dollars. The newly-elected leader said he wants the opinions of those hardest hit by the country's crises to be included in recovery plans from now on.
He said, "I'd like to express respect from my heart to your great suffering and the efforts you have made in the last six months. I'll do my best to reflect your opinions into the third special budget."
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Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (2nd L) inspects a playground that has completed
radioactive decontamination work in Date, about 60 km (38 miles) from the tsunami
crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, Fukushima prefecture, September 8, 2011. |
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