Tokyo, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday told a meeting of the disaster management task force that his Cabinet deciding to designate Typhoon Hagibis as a "major disaster" would enable local municipalities carrying out much-needed recovery work to be state-managed.
The Cabinet, which will announce the decision on Tuesday, in doing so, will be able to better finance regions recovering after the most powerful typhoon to hit Japan in decades earlier this month, wreaking extensive damage and claiming the lives of nearly 90 people.
Abe said that the move would lift the financial burden off local municipalities with the government being able to plan and make better provisions for repair work when specific requests are made by particular municipalities.
The government had said in the days following the mega-storm battering Japan on Oct. 12-13, that it would access reserve funds, and, if deemed necessary, would compile a draft a supplementary budget to cover the immense amount of reconstruction work.
The amount will likely exceed initiation estimates due to the actual costs of the disaster yet to be made fully clear, as some of the hardest-hit regions continue to gauge the full scope of the damaged caused.
