The Japanese government has earmarked $ 6.5 million from emergency fund to help people overcome the aftermath of Hurricane Hagibis.

"The Government will unite to solve the problem of supporting the victims of the storm, to help them return to normal life as quickly as possible," Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced today when deciding to disburse. a part of emergency reserve fund.

The Japanese government will monitor the disbursement of 710 million yen ($ 6.5 million) grants to more than 300 cities affected by Hurricane Hagibis. This amount was taken from emergency reserves of 500 billion yen (over 4.6 billion USD) of Japan.

Typhoon Hagibis, accompanied by record rain and strong winds hitting central and eastern Japan on October 12, caused at least 176 rivers to break, flooding residential areas and landslides in 11 provinces. As of this afternoon, 74 people were killed by the storm, more than 10 remain missing and more than 200 are injured.

More than 10,000 households are still in a state of outage after Typhoon Hagibis, while more than 110,000 households are still in a state of dehydration, according to Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga.

Television images show Japanese people in the area hit by Typhoon Hagibis who have returned to mud-flooded houses and rescuers are actively seeking a missing family on the hillside after the landslide. The northeastern region of Japan is the region most severely affected by the typhoon Hagibis, with 26 people in Fukushima Prefecture alone.

Rail traffic gradually resumed operation after the storm, but the Shinkansen bullet train was still suspended in Nagano and Niigata, central Japan.