Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said his administration will craft a new five-year plan by summer to promote reconstruction in areas of Tohoku damaged by the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters.
"With a five-year intensive reconstruction period ending in March next year, (the administration) will draw up a framework by summer of new assistance for reconstruction in the next five years," Abe said at a news conference on Tuesday.
He said the administration will also outline by summer a vision for the future of Fukushima Prefecture, which has suffered from the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.