Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda attended a ceremony of raising a signboard for the Reconstruction Agency, which was inaugurated today, together with Mr. Tatsuo Hirano, Minister for Reconstruction, and others.

The Reconstruction Agency was established within the Cabinet as an organization to promote reconstruction projects in a sweeping manner in a way that best meets the need of the disaster-stricken areas, without being obliged to follow precedents, in order to bring about reconstruction at the earliest date possible.