Around 200 billion yen of public money earmarked to help people hit by Japan’s 2011 quake and tsunami has been spent in areas unaffected by the natural disaster, the government admitted Monday.
In far northern Hokkaido, a project to boost tourism based on the area’s wine and cheese culture benefited from the money.
In a town in the southern prefecture of Kagoshima, around 1,300 kilometers from the devastated city of Ishinomaki, three million yen was spent on the protection and observation of sea turtles.
Ten people were employed to count the creatures as they came ashore and to remind sightseers not to interfere with them.
“We only counted sea turtles and were not required to move eggs to safe places or do other things. It wasn’t even for sea turtles, let alone those hit by the disaster,” the daily quoted one of the 10 as saying.
According to the Asahi, other publicly-financed projects included the production of a restaurant guidebook in Aichi, central Japan, and the publication of leaflets encouraging safe use of the Internet and mobile phones in nearby Mie.
I'm sure that the promotion of industries, tourist destinations and restaurant guide books in locations that were hundres if not a more than thousand kilometers help all those people who were actually effected by the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster at Fukushima-Daiichi.
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