The death rate among disabled people living in coastal areas of Miyagi Prefecture when the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami struck was 2.5 times higher than the overall average, a support group said Monday.
In searching for new sources of funding, the United Nations this month called for a tax on billionaires to raise money for poor countries. According to the assessment in the U.N. World Economic and Social Survey, an annual tax on the world's super-rich would yield almost $400 billion a year.
Tsunami killed higher proportion of disabled | The Japan Times Online
Billionaire's tax to help the poor | The Japan Times