各縣希望全國支援地方重建

Recently the NHK News reported the following:
全国知事会の会長を務める福岡県の麻生知事は、片山総務大臣と会談し、東北関東大震災で壊滅的な被害を受けた自治体の再建や、被災者の生活再建を支援するための財源として、国が全額負担する新たな基金を設けるよう要請しました。
会談には、新潟県の泉田知事も同席し、この中で、麻生知事は「被災地では多くの人が亡くなり、津波で街ごと流されており、被災者個人の支援に着目した現在の被災者支援制度では対応できない。ぜひ抜本的に見直してほしい」と訴えました。そして、壊滅的な被害を受けた自治体の再建や、被災者の生活再建を支援するための財源として、国が全額負担する１兆から１兆５０００億円規模の新たな基金を設けるよう要請しました。これに対して、片山総務大臣は「既存の法体系では、うまくいかないものがいくつかある。自治体が、財政面でも仕事をやりやすいように、問題点を整理し、できるかぎりのことは対応していきたい」と述べました

(試譯文)
Fukuoka Prefecture governor Aso who also served as the chairman of National Governors Association conferred with Katayama the Minister for Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications to request the establishment of a new fund which the country would bear the full amount as the financial resource to support the rebuilding of the municipality, and the rebuilding of victim's livelihood that had received catastrophic damage in the Tohoku Great Kanto Earthquake.
Governor Izumida of Niigata Prefecture also sat in the conference, and Aso governor appealed that ｢A lot of people had died in the stricken area, the whole town was washed away because of the tsunami, and it is not possible to respond using the current victim support system that at the moment only pays attention to the support of the victim individually. I want you to review it drastically by all means｣. And, it was requested that a new fund at a scale of 1 trillion to 1.5 trillion yen to be set up which the country would bear the full amount as the financial resource to support the rebuilding of the municipality, and the rebuilding of victim's livelihood that had received catastrophic damage. On the other hand, Katayama the Minister for Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications said that ｢There are a few things that could not go well with the existing law system. The hope is to arrange the problems so that the municipality may work easily on the financial side, and to respond to all things that are permissible within the limits｣.

As far as rebuilding the municipality is concerned, it is natural for the prefectures to seek financial help from the nation as a whole.