[Miyagi Recovery Commission] Parallel panel set up by Miyagi Prefecture

Source: Kahoku Online Network, http://www.kahoku.co.jp/news/2011/04/20110410t11041.htm, Viewed 2011 April 10

Miyagi Prefecture's Governor Yoshihiro Murai has set up a recovery panel that, at least initially, competes with Prime Minister Naoto Kan's Recovery Commission. For now I will call this parallel panel the Murai-Komiyama Recovery Panel. It's tentative Japanese name is "Shinsai Fukko Keikaku Sakutei Konwakai" (震災復興計画策定懇話会).



This panel embraces a plan, the Disaster Revitalization District (震災新生特区), which was formally presented to Mr. Kan on April 6 by Professor Komiyama. This plan envisions building Eco-towns and public welfare cities along the devastated Sanriku coast, including renewable energy sources such as solar electricity.


Professor Komiyama, a native of Tochigi Prefecture, was president of the University of Tokyo between 2005 and 2009. He is now President of Mitsubishi Research Institute and Director of the Center for Low Carbon Society Strategy at the Japan Science and Technology Agency. Other members of the Murai-Komiyama Panel include Jitsuro Terashima, President of Japan Research Institute, and Professor Akihisa Inoue, President of Tohoku University.