May 30, 2022 Decision to Provide Subsidy for the Disaster Resistance Enhancement Project by Using Optical Cable TV to Establish New Daily Lives

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) has decided to provide subsidies to seven entities under the Disaster Resistance Enhancement Project by Using Optical Cable TV to Establish New Daily Lives using the FY2021 supplementary budget and the FY2022 initial budget.

1. Project overview

This project aims to subsidize a part of expenses when such entities as municipalities and third-sector corporations develop optical cable television networks in order to ensure reliable and stable information transmission in times of disaster in local areas and to strengthen disaster resistance.
MIC made a public solicitation for this project from January 17 to February 4, 2022.

2. Subsidy recipients

As a result of the evaluation by external experts, MIC decided to grant subsidies to the following seven entities today:

Prefectures	Entities
Ibaraki Prefecture	Motegi Town
Tottori Prefecture	Nihonkai Cable Network, Inc.
Okayama Prefecture	Takahashi City
Yamaguchi Prefecture	Hagi City
Saga Prefecture	CableOne Inc.
Kumamoto Prefecture	Amakusa Cable Network
Okinawa Prefecture	Tarama Village