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Japan to expand FY2024/25 budget reserves for earthquake aid

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Japan to expand FY2024/25 budget reserves for earthquake aid
PEOPLE walk on Shibuya crossing in Tokyo, Japan on April 23, 2021, in this photo taken by Kyodo. — KYODO/VIA REUTERS

TOKYO – Japan plans to expand its budget reserves for fiscal 2024/25 to support recovery from the Noto peninsula earthquake, Minister of Finance Shunichi Suzuki said on Tuesday.

The cabinet earlier on Tuesday approved 4.74 billion yen in spending from fiscal 2023/24 reserves for such aid as water, food, diapers and heaters, Mr. Suzuki also said.

Using reserves allows for a faster and more “realistic” response than compiling an extra budget, Mr. Suzuki told a press conference, indicating the possibility of further expenditure from reserves as damage from the temblor becomes clearer.

The magnitude 7.6 earthquake that hit Noto in Ishikawa prefecture on Japan’s west coast on New Year’s Day killed at least 180 people, making it the deadliest since the 2016 quake in Kumamoto on the southern island of Kyushu.

Changes to the 2024/25 budget plan will be submitted to parliament’s regular session starting later this month. The government had approved a total budget of 112 trillion yen ($780 billion) just 10 days before the quake, including 500 billion yen for general reserves and another 1 trillion yen in reserves for inflation countermeasures.

Mr. Suzuki declined to comment on the size of the addition to reserves or how it will be financed, saying only that the government is still examining the fiscal needs of quake-hit areas. Media outlets including the Nikkei and Yomiuri reported the expansion will be funded by more government bond issuance.

Mr. Suzuki said he cancelled a trip to Cambodia slated for Tuesday to focus on disaster response, but will visit Sri Lanka on Jan. 11-12.

Japan has urged Sri Lanka and its creditor nations to sign a Memorandum of Understanding on the island-nation’s debt restructuring following an agreement reached in principle late last year. – Reuters

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