The maintenance costs in fiscal 2024 for infrastructure in northeast Japan, which was hit by a devastating earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 that also triggered a nuclear crisis, were 1.51 times higher from before the disasters, according to a recent study by Kyodo News.The costs of maintaining and managing public housing for disaster victims and seawalls, among other facilities, by the three prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima and 41 municipalities in those prefectures totaled at least 146 billion yen ($923.2 million), data compiled by Tuesday showed.On March 11, 2011, a magnitud…READ FULL ARTICLE
