A new school has opened in the northeastern town of Onagawa, where hundreds of lives were lost in the 2011 quake and tsunami, with help from a government of Qatar relief fund.
A ¥1 billion ($9.4 million) contribution from the state helped cover some of the ¥5.3 billion spent on the project to build a municipality-run school for elementary and junior high school students in the Miyagi Prefecture community. The Japanese government also extended subsidies for the project.
Qatar's involvement in the project began in 2012 when former Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani launched the Qatar Friendship Fund, a $100 million aid fund intended to assist areas of northeastern Japan devastated by the disaster and in need of reconstruction.