It also worked hard to provide cash to the disaster areas by taking actions such as establishing a temporary teller window in Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture, for the exchange of damaged banknotes and coins.
The total amount of cash exchanged since the earthquake at the Bank’s windows in the affected Tohoku region, including the temporary one in Morioka City, amounted to 3.06 billion yen, through July 22. This greatly exceeds the amount exchanged at the Bank’s Kobe Branch during the six months following the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, which was about 0.8 billion yen.