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How much money did Japan's largest 2011 reconstruction budget provide?
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Japan earthquake and tsunami of 2011
Aerial view of damage to a portion of the northeastern coast of Honshu, Japan, following the offshore earthquake and resultant tsunami there on March 11, 2011.
The third and largest of the disaster-related supplemental budgets, which was approved in November 2011, provided approximately $155 billion. The majority of these funds were earmarked for reconstruction efforts in the areas devastated by the earthquake and tsunami.1