The Government of Japan (GoJ) received a request from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to provide generators to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA), out of the approximately eight hundred thousand dollars-worth of emergency assistance supplies that the GoJ has offered as part of its one million dollars-worth of relief assistance in response to the damages caused by the landfall of Hurricane Katrina.
Following this request, in addition to the provision of three hundred thousand dollars-worth of supplies (blankets and sleeping mattresses) to the American Red Cross that the GoJ implemented on September 9, the GoJ has decided to transport two hundred thousand dollars-worth of supplies (150 sets of generators and cord reels, including transportation cost) from its storage in Miami, Florida, to Jackson, Mississippi, and has provided them to MEMA today (September 11, U.S. time). As a result, the total sum of emergency assistance supplies provided so far estimated to be approximately five hundred thousand dollars.
[Note: Assistance Measures by the GoJ (as of September 12)]
The GoJ has decided to provide 200 thousand dollars to the American Red Cross to assist the people in the affected region (September 2).
The GoJ offered the USG that the GoJ was prepared to provide 800 thousand dollars-worth of emergency assistance supply according to the needs of the affected region (300 thousand on September 2, and an additional 500 thousand on September 6).
The GoJ decided to provide 300 thousand dollars-worth of supply (20 thousand blankets, three thousand sleeping mattresses, including transportation cost) from the storage in Miami, Florida to the American Red Cross on September 8. The supply was sent to Walker, Louisiana, and Montgomery, Alabama on September 9.
The GoJ has offered the USG that the GoJ was prepared to dispatch the Japan Disaster Relief Team according to the needs of the affected region (September 2, Telephone conversation between Foreign Ministry Machimura and the Secretary of State Rice).
With the GoJ's strong support, the IEA member states decided to cooperate in releasing two million barrels per day of oil reserves over a period of 30 days (September 3). The GoJ decided to release approximately 73 million barrels from private reserves.
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