Recovery and reconstruction efforts in the wake of major natural disasters take years and large sums of money to complete, and the recent magnitude-6.7 quake that rocked the northernmost main island of Japan is likely to prove no exception.Shoichiro Miyasaka, mayor of Atsuma, Hokkaido, where massive landslides swept away residents in their homes during the Sept. 6 quake, said repairs of roads and farmlands will require "at least" several tens of billions of yen -- equivalent to hundreds of millions of dollars.Thirty-six of the 41 deaths reported in the prefecture occurred in Atsuma, and 879…READ FULL ARTICLE
