Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Akaba announced in a ministerial negotiation with Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Aso that he had agreed to include about 300 billion yen in the cost of implementing hydraulic control measures for rivers in order to promote national resilience.
After the ministerial negotiations, Minister Akabane told reporters, "River basin hydraulic control is not effective unless the national government, prefectures, municipalities, etc. share the same understanding and make a medium- to long-term plan and proceed with the entire water system. I think that the accumulated budget of 300 billion yen will have a great effect. "
In addition, in this ministerial negotiation, it was agreed to include 80.4 billion yen as a national burden in response to the delay in opening the Hokuriku Shinkansen and the increase in project costs.
Regarding this, Minister Akabane said, "We will promote the prevention of recurrence by requiring local governments to regularly report the execution status of construction so as not to repeat this mistake that caused the opening of the business to be delayed." ..