Response to the Great East Japan Earthquake

We will continue our efforts to respond, to achieve the quickest recovery possible.

Full-scale restoration works accelerate

With prospects for most debris processing to be completed by the end of March 2014 in sight, restoration works in the earthquake disaster-stricken areas are underway in earnest. Beginning with the Collective Relocation Disaster Prevention Promotion Projects (relocation to higher ground), levee and bank protection works are being carried out continuously in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, the three so-called damaged prefectures.
In January 2015 the Reconstruction Agency announced a fiscal 2015 draft initial budget of 3.9 trillion yen for the Special Account for Reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake, making it clear total funding will come to 4.2 trillion yen (reconstruction effort basis) when combined with the prior year's supplementary budget. The main purpose is to contribute to programs that will accelerate recovery of the stricken areas. These include Rebuilding Houses and Reconstructing Communities, Reconstructing and Revitalizing Fukushima, Reconstruction of Industries and Livelihoods, (Health and Living Support) for the Disaster-Affected, and Creation of 'New Tohoku'.

Reconstruction roads and reconstruction support roads aim to speed opening to traffic

The development of reconstruction roads and reconstruction support roads has been enumerated as one key project for Rebuilding Houses and Reconstructing Communities. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism is seeking to quickly open roads to traffic by cutting the time from project approval to completion by roughly half the time normally required.
One reconstruction road, the Sanriku Coastal Road, is scheduled to be opened to traffic between the Shizugawa Interchange (IC) and South Sanriku Coast IC in Miyagi Prefecture in fiscal 2016, and between the South Sanriku Coast IC and Utatsu IC in fiscal 2017. When combined with the stretch between the Tome Towa IC and Shizugawa IC scheduled to open to traffic in fiscal 2015, the road will be open from the Sendai Kohoku IC to Utatsu.
In Iwate Prefecture, the Sanriku Coastal Road is scheduled to open to traffic in fiscal 2017 between both the Yamada IC and Miyako Minami IC and the Taro Kita IC and Iwaizumi Ryusendo IC. The interval between the Tono-Sumita IC and Tono IC on the Kamaishi-Hanamaki Road, another reconstruction support road in the prefecture, is expected to open in fiscal 2018 and link the road from Hanamaki Junction to the Kamaishi Nishi IC.
On the Soma-Fukushima Road, a reconstruction support road in Fukushima Prefecture, the interval between the Abukuma Higashi IC and Abukuma IC, and the interval between the Soma IC and Soma Nishi IC, are expected to open in fiscal 2017 and fiscal 2018, respectively.
As restoration works move steadily forward, the Kanamoto Group will marshal its collective capabilities and work to further strengthen its response capacity, in order to respond to rapidly increasing construction equipment rental demand to the fullest extent possible, while continuing to devote its efforts to early recovery of the devastated region.