Gov't OKs higher subsidies for rebuilding quake-hit southwestern Japan

Gov't OKs higher subsidies for rebuilding quake-hit southwestern Japan

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga tells a press conference in Tokyo on April 25, 2016, that the government has designated a recent string of powerful earthquakes that have rocked the southwestern main island of Kyushu as a disaster of "extreme severity," paving the way for affected communities to receive higher state subsidies to aid recovery efforts. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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