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Great East Japan Earthquake 23 trillion yen over 10 years for reconstruction
A Japanese journalist walks along giant concrete tetrapods at a coastal part covered with weeds, damaged by the March 11 magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami, July 22, 2011, in tsunami devastated Minamisoma city, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan, about 20km away from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.According to Japan's Kyodo news, the Japanese government will need to spend at least 23 trillion yen ($291 billion) on reconstruction projects over the next decade following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and is planning to expend around 80 percent of the funds during the first half of the period, officials said July 21. (Photo by Tomoyuki Kaya/AFLO)
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