Japan quake, flood victim attempts fresh start with wife's memory

I pay a lot of tax. Can’t something be done for this man and people like him?

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you could also send him a worthy donation. He would appreciate your kindness.

"'Reality remains tough as ever', says Japan PM as extra $660m pledged for Noto earthquake rebuild. Japan will spend an additional $660m rebuilding areas ravaged by a devastating New Year's Day earthquake, prime minister Fumio Kishida said, taking the total amount of relief to $1.7bn."

"The government will establish a subsidy program to cover two-thirds of the costs of restoration work on the ground and the foundations of affected houses."

https://www.arabnews.jp/en/japan/article_118198/

I pay a lot of tax. Can’t something be done for this man and people like him?

In a more democratic-socialist admin it would be.

Instead you get more corporate friendly tax cuts, wasteful corporate graft and welfare ,Expos, Olympic construction etc.

The choice is pretty clear if you want to help people like Miyakoshi-san.

Poor bugger!

My uncle has also had a hard time. Lost his house to the earthquake but couldn't claim insurance because even though it was unlivable inside it was still standing. Now after just starting a new restaurant it got flooded and most of the electricals were destroyed..

ganbatte Wajima!

I pay a lot of tax.

yeah right and you get it most of it back.

How do I get most of it back?

I see most posters here support tax money for overseas wars and Kishida travel but none for Japanese taxpayers in need.

Would love to think this guy will have a cozy place to enjoy winter when it gets colder.

Blacklabel

How do I get most of it back?

I see most posters here support tax money for overseas wars and Kishida travel but none for Japanese taxpayers in need.

I pay a lot of tax. Can’t something be done for this man and people like him?

A false statement as I have shown. Miyakoshi was living in rent-free emergency accommodation which had become flooded. Another home will be found but not so quickly as he's not the only one in need.

I feel sorry for him and wish he didn’t have to live like this in a first world country such as Japan.

Japan deals very well with natural disasters. Better than most other countries.

Blacklabel

I feel sorry for him and wish he didn’t have to live like this in a first world country such as Japan.

Do you have a solution to prevent natural disasters like earthquakes and floods?

I hope Miyakoshi San get the proper help..

頑張って!!!..

Japan is for the brave people who knows how to love and appreciate this great and beautiful country..

As someone who has paid for two houses to be built, one of which survived a huge earthquake, and still have to work hard to pay the loans on them, I am happy that people who live in less sturdy buildings that collapse in earthquakes do not get rewarded with a nice new house for free courtesy of the taxpayer. They get all kinds of money spent on them, free demolition and site clearing, temp housing in a prefab, and a relief payment of one million yen or so. It will all add up to a tidy sum, the prefabs are six million yen each, so the government is not giving them "nothing" by any sensible definition. I do not resent such relief work, far from it, but I would resent such people being gifted a new house.

Some people living in less sturdy houses than mine have far more expensive cars than mine sitting outside them. Like a 4wd posh kei that looks like a Mini Cooper and will be 2.5 million yen when you give it the Daihatsu sat nav and posh alloys. I would like a new car too, but spent my money and more on a sturdy house instead. This means I am likely to be less of a burden to the taxpayer when disaster strikes.

My uncle has also had a hard time. Lost his house to the earthquake but couldn't claim insurance because even though it was unlivable inside it was still standing.

Hold on, serious question. Are you saying insurance companies will not pay out unless your house has collapsed? I need to know because I am having second thoughts about my earthquake insurance and the measly 600 man en coverage that won't cover anything really. If and when the big one does happen, I want to make sure I can actually claim something otherwise I am throwing money down the drain.

I wonder why there is no prevention plan for new buildings.

Sad to hear about Miyakoshi's story that is just so unfortunate him being becoming alone. Strange though that no family nor any friends aren't helping him somehow.

In my country, new buildings for a long time now either are built in a compulsory way to sustain major natural events, or built where it won't happen.

Money should go for such investment in a rich country like Japan. If no plan, it will repeat forever and such sad story too.

May he find a peaceful and safe place to be.

Do you have a solution to prevent natural disasters like earthquakes and floods?

I certainly have a solution for disaster response and recovery.

seems you are ok that he should maybe get a new place to stay sometime soon. If it were you who had no place to stay today I think you would care a little more.

BlacklabelToday  02:47 pm JST

Do you have a solution to prevent natural disasters like earthquakes and floods?

I certainly have a solution for disaster response and recovery. 

seems you are ok that he should maybe get a new place to stay sometime soon. If it were you who had no place to stay today I think you would care a little more

After the Jan 1 earthquake people were given emergency shelter. By March people were moved into rent free temporary accommodation. Some of those have been flooded. New accommodation will found but it takes time.

As someone who has paid for two houses to be built, one of which survived a huge earthquake..... Some people living in less sturdy houses than mine have far more expensive cars than mine sitting outside them. Like a 4wd posh kei that looks like a Mini Cooper and will be 2.5 million yen when you give it the Daihatsu sat nav and posh alloys. I would like a new car too, but spent my money and more on a sturdy house instead. This means I am likely to be less of a burden to the taxpayer when disaster strikes.

It is NOT about you and your two houses and a poor car.

Jonathan PrinToday  02:08 pm JST

I wonder why there is no prevention plan for new buildings

They are emergency temporary accommodations. Built to last 5 years.

After the most recent massive quake hit Noto in January, the former chef spent a few months at an evacuation center, then moved to another shelter.

I had the same response at the outbreak of COVID when with the lack of LDP support to the populace and ole PM Suga said people should practice 'self-reliance'.

That's great but why do people pay taxes to a government?

To support a horde of useless document shuffling bureaucrats and politicians sleeping in the Diet?

And forcing money pit boondoggles like the Olympics and Expo on the public?

No, it is just to provide assistance in a crisis. That is the government's role. And they are often absent in their role.

Negligence of present LDP Kishida government has delays re-construction of Noto peninsula, most of damaged places such as innumerable rubbles or landslides when quake hit are still untouched, and this heavy rain has more worsen situation.

Recent LDP regime forces heavier national burden to ordinal citizen year by year, But they so dislike to do something for citizen facing difficulties.

Present Japanese Prime Minister Kishida had visited at Noto peninsula before tourism to United State. But parting gift from him to Noto was only his one word written on wood board, not something help sufferers such as recovery plan.

@Blacklable

Seems like you are trying to solve the worlds problem! Something that can't be solved.