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  Japan Plans Disaster Budget, Building 100k Homes

  World | Apr 23, 2011, 10:50 AM IST

  Tokyo:  Japan's government proposed a special $50 billion (4 trillion yen) budget to help finance reconstruction efforts Friday and plans to build 100,000 temporary homes for survivors of last month's devastating earthquake and tsunami. The

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  Japan On 'Maximum Alert' Over Nuclear Crisis: PM

  World | Mar 29, 2011, 10:28 AM IST

  Osaka, Mar 29 : Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan today said his government is in a "state of maximum alert" over the crisis at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, Jiji Press reported. Kan told a