Half of government budget allocation is yet to be distributed, despite 325,000 people still living in temporary accommodation
Following the 1995 Kobe earthquake millions of dollars were donated to the Japanese Red Cross to help the earthquakes victims. Instead of distributing the funds to help the those in need the Red Cross kept 90% of the money for its self. Also the government makes it incredibly difficult for those needing financial assistance to receive it. Because they have created unnecessary rules and regulations making it almost impossible to receive any assistance.
A quarter of the 11.7tn yen (£91bn) the Japanese government allocated to rebuild the region devastated by last year's earthquake and tsunamihas been spent on projects unrelated to the disaster.
A government audit also found about half the reconstruction budget had yet to be distributed owing to red tape and indecision over how the affected communities should be rebuilt.
The revelations have prompted anger among survivors, who say reconstruction is taking too long.
A breakdown of expenditure for the 2011 portion of the disaster budget found a large amount had gone to projects that have little or no relationship to the reconstruction efforts in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushimaprefectures, where almost 20,000 people died on 11 March last year.They included 500m yen for road construction in Okinawa, more than 1,000 miles to the south; 330m yen to repair a sports stadium in Tokyo; 10.7bn yen for a nuclear power research organisation; and subsidies for a contact lens factory.Another 30m yen went to the justice ministry to buy equipment for prisons, while 2.3bn yen was given to the fisheries agency to protect Japan's whaling fleet from harassment by the marine conservation group, Sea Shepherd.Other expenditure included renovations of government offices in Tokyo, training for aircraft and fighter pilots, research and production of rare-earth minerals, and semiconductor research.
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