Figure II-1-3-1 Development Status of Disaster Public Housing (March 31, 2016)

Prefecture	Procuring of land	Design started	Construction commenced	Construction completed	Overall plan
Iwate prefecture	5,636 houses 188 districts	5,085 houses 169 districts	4,631 houses 138 districts	3,168 houses 102 districts	5,771 houses
Miyagi prefecture	15,290 houses 399 districts	14,746 houses 379 districts	13,394 houses 342 districts	9,812 houses 262 districts	15,919 houses
Fukushima prefecture	7,716 houses 156 districts	7,105 houses 148 districts	5,163 houses 123 districts	3,767 houses 97 districts	7,885 houses $ ^{(Note)} $

(Note) 1 The plan number is from the Residence Recovery Construction Timetable (as of the end of March 2016).

2 Regarding Fukushima's disaster public housing, the overall plan is not finalized for disaster public housing for returnees from evacuation due to the nuclear disaster. Source) MLIT

## Securing Local Public Transportation and Promoting Tourism

## (1) Securing Local Public Transportation

In regards to local public transportation, which suffered damage from the Great East Japan Earthquake, we are implementing exceptional measures, such as mitigating the auxiliary requirements for the Regional Public Transportation Securement, Sustentation, and Improvement Projects to support the securing and maintaining of local public transportation systems, such as buses, and to 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.

## (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 radiation doses on the Japan National Tourist Organization website for the benefit of overseas consumers, and we invited members of foreign media to the Tohoku region and implemented the transmission of information about Tohoku through SNS to promote the appeal of 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 supported efforts by both people in departing and arriving areas by developing public relations for the recovery and dispelling of harmful rumors, preventing the memories of the earthquake from being forgotten, promoting regional systems for the recovery of tourism, and 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.

According to the Accommodation Survey by the Japan Tourism Agency, among the six Tohoku prefectures $ ^{Note1} $ , the total number of guest nights was approximately 32.51 million in 2015 $ ^{Note2} $ , which is a 7.5% increase compared to 2010 before the earthquake. However, if we look at the total number of guest nights at tourist-oriented accommodations $ ^{Note3} $ , the number decreased by 13.3% compared to 2010, showing that the major scars left by the earthquake disaster are preventing the national economic boom from reaching these areas $ ^{Note4} $ .