Loan or donation?
Disaster relief funds are loans.
In order to borrow, you need a guarantor.
There are procedures, documents, identification, and disaster damage assessments.
In reality, this is very difficult.
Moreover, even if it’s an interest-free loan, it still has to be repaid.
This applies to those whose businesses have continued after the earthquake.
Many people who remain in the affected areas are elderly.
There are many people who should be admitted to hospitals or care facilities without any personal burden, but they are still there.
The disaster-stricken areas should abandon capitalism and become socialist.
The government should buy up all the land in the disaster-stricken areas.
Turn it into national land, make it a national park, and a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Build apartment complexes and nursing homes.
Citizens over 65 years old who donate land to the government should be guaranteed a lifelong living.
If such a policy were implemented, I can guarantee that the government’s approval rating would rise.
What I learned from volunteering in the disaster area:
To get to the tip of the Noto Peninsula, you need to use a toll road.
It’s still a toll road.
According to the local government, if you notify the government, the volunteer will have their toll fees covered.
But where are these government offices?
What kind of documents are needed?
Is it realistic to expect a volunteer who has come from across the country to complete such paperwork?
I don’t think it’s realistic.
It’s probably the same idea as the scholarship loans for students.
Is it realistic to expect disaster victims to repay in the future?
Like students, do they have income prospects in the future?
In other words, are they saying that those with no prospects shouldn’t borrow?
That’s why the amounts borrowed are so small.
They probably never intended to use them in the first place.
The government and local governments should use it themselves.
For the citizens.
Under the responsibility of the political administration.
If that’s the case, citizens will allow tax increases.
But there needs to be responsibility and capability in how it’s used.
Noto Earthquake, Day 337. I will note this just for today.
It’s cold in Noto, and the food distributions are still continuing. Yes, even now.
Yesterday, I went shopping with the family from the mother-child facility at a nearby mega-supermarket.
It was so big that I was surprised.
It’s like Disneyland, with a playground.
It was an early Christmas at Ginza, with Santa.
Blood sugar 167. This morning, it’s cold, so I’ll eat the remaining somen noodles as warm noodles.
Koyama Group Representative
Thunderbird Representative
Vice President of Health Station
Checking the expiration dates of emergency food supplies.
Yasunari Koyama