Figure II-1-3-1 Development Status of Disaster Public Housing (March 31, 2015)

Prefecture	Procuring of land	Construction commenced	Construction completed	Provision plan
Iwate prefecture	5,246 houses
160 districts	3,678 houses
100 districts	1,525 houses
54 districts	5,921 houses
12 municipalities
Miyagi prefecture	15,004 houses
350 districts	10,291 houses
223 districts	5,289 houses
132 districts	15,988 houses
21 municipalities
Fukushima prefecture $ ^{(Note)} $	7,041 houses
127 districts	3,577 houses
84 districts	2,126 houses
48 districts	7,592 houses
21 municipalities

(Note) Fukushima Prefecture has a district where the construction plans for disaster public housing for earthquake/tsunami victims are not formulated. Also, the distribution plans for the disaster public housing for nuclear disaster evacuees have not been confirmed due to the fact that current plans may need to be reviewed based on the results from the residents' intention survey. Source) MLIT

## Section 4 Securing Local Public Transportation and Promoting Tourism

## (1) Securing Local Public Transportation

In regards to the local public transportation, which suffered damages from the Great East Japan Earthquake, we are taking exceptional measures such as mitigating the auxiliary requirements for the Regional Public Transportation Securement, Sustention and Improvement Projects to support the securing and maintaining of local public transportation systems such as buses and share taxis in disaster affected areas. Specifically, these measures support the securing and maintaining of inter-regional mainline bus transportation networks, as well as community bus transportation for daily commutes between evacuation shelters, temporary housing, remaining settlements, and newly built housing, hospitals, shops and public agencies. Furthermore, for bus transportation within the district, continued support is being offered by extending the support period for another 2 years to FY2015, making it possible to respond with careful consideration of the needs in the district, such as raising the aid provision limit according to the number of places with temporary housing.

## (2) Reviving Tourism

To recover the major drop in the number of foreign tourists coming to the Tohoku area after the earthquake, we are working on dispelling harmful rumors in major overseas markets and engaging in PR work regarding the recovering of tourism in this area.

To be more specific, we posted accurate information regarding things like radiation doses on the Japan Government Tourist Office website for the benefit of overseas consumers, and we invited members of foreign media to the Tohoku region and also implemented the transmission of information about Tohoku through SNS to promote the appeal of the Tohoku as a tourist destination. In addition, we invited overseas travel companies to the Tohoku region, and communicated tourism information about the Tohoku region by supporting the development of travel products and having an overseas travel exposition.

We are also implementing different initiatives to recover national tourism. For the Pacific Ocean coastal areas in particular, we have supported efforts taken by both people in departing and arriving areas by developing public relations for the recovery and dispelling of harmful rumor, preventing the memories of earthquake from being forgotten, promoting rigonal systems for the recovery of turism, advancing the creation of travel products and recovery tours that are unique to the region. In addition, to facilitate the earliest possible recovery of tourism in Fukushima prefecture, we supported tourism-related businesses that contributed to the efforts for reputation damage control and disaster recovery. In addition, in order to contribute to increasing the satisfaction level of visitors and dispelling damaging rumours, a special exception has been made based on the Special Measures for Fukushima Restoration and Revitalization so that as of March 2012, Fukushima Prefecture is authorized to grant their own licensed guide qualifications. As of the end of March 2015, 85 people have been registered with this qualification.

According to the Overnight Travelers Statistical Survey by the Japan Tourism Agency, among the 6 Tohoku Prefectures Note $ ^{1} $ , the total number of overnight guests was approximately 39 million people for FY2014 yearly rate Note $ ^{2} $ , which is a 1.5%