長野、岐阜、激甚・特定災害に　豪雨被害で政府

　政府は９日、豪雨被害が出た長野、岐阜両県について、激甚災害と特定非常災害に指定する方向で調整に入った。安倍晋三首相は同日の非常災害対策本部の会議で「早期に指定できるよう調査・検討を加速してほしい」と指示した。
　激甚災害に指定されると、地方自治体による復旧・復興事業に対する国の補助率がかさ上げされる。特定非常災害に指定されれば、被災者は運転免許証有効期限や飲食店営業許可の延長などの特例措置を受けられる。（2020/07/09-16:42）

The Japanese government started on Thursday to consider including the central prefectures of Nagano and Gifu in the areas subject to its envisaged extremely severe and specified extraordinary disaster designations related to recent torrential rains.
   "I'd like you all to speed up surveys and discussions so that the designations will be made promptly," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told related officials at a meeting of the government's headquarters in response to the heavy rains on the day.
   An extremely severe disaster designation will increase state subsidies for local governments' reconstruction projects. The designation as a specified extraordinary disaster will make special measures available to affected people, such as the extension of the validity period of driver's licenses and eateries' business permits.
   "The central government needs to work as one to restore and rebuild affected areas as early as possible," Abe said, urging the officials to focus on grasping the needs in afflicted areas accurately and providing them with necessary support.
   In the recent downpours, which devastated wide areas in the country, especially Kumamoto and other prefectures in the Kyushu southwestern region, a total of some 130,000 people, including police officers, firefighters, Japan Coast Guard officers and Self-Defense Forces members, have been engaging in search and rescue operations.