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Build Back Better than Before Creative Reconstruction

〔Efforts in Hyogo〕

The plan aims not merely to restore the previous status quo but to carry out a slogan of "Creative Reconstruction" adopting a perspective of a society that allows for harmonious coexistence, where people could live in harmony with nature with others, and with their community, and policy and projects based on the plan are developed.

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The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Reconstruction Fund

The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Fund was established by utilizing a local grant tax that is common local revenue source throughout Japan. The fund was established as a means to implement projects meeting disaster victims' multi-faceted needs promptly over the long-term and on a stable and flexible basis, such as housing, living, industrial and educational recovery.[1995 started]