Ocean Colonies As the Next Frontier

A month after the March 11 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake the Japanese Cabinet finalized a ¥4.02 trillion (US$49 Billion) draft extra budget for the current fiscal year.  This sum shall pay for an initial phase for reconstruction work in devastated communities along Japan’s northeastern coast.   Compared to the total 1995 Kobe quake reconstruction supplemental budget of ¥3.23 trillion (passed in three phases), the initial phase sum for the recent earthquake/tsunami already surpasses the total Kobe figure.

http://blogs.forbes.com/raytsuchiyama/2011/04/24/ocean-colonies-as-the-next-frontier/