Japan to help evacuees in 2011 disaster-hit areas secure new homes

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday the government will aim to complete building and securing housing in fiscal 2020 for those forced to evacuate their homes due to the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in two of the three hardest-hit prefectures in the northeast.The government will do all it can to help those still unable to secure new homes to move out of temporary housing in Miyagi and Iwate prefectures by the end of March 2021, the prime minister said."Securing housing will be an important step toward reconstruction," Abe told reporters in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, wh…READ FULL ARTICLE