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To assess these damages. so far, it's been very clear that a lot of infrastructures have been hit, particularly on the transportation side, procurement side, which would take a very long time to restore. if you look at the past example, for example, in the kobe earthquake, we had two supplementary budgets the year after the earthquake hit kobe. the supplemented budget would have to be hit naturally. in addition to usage of reserves we have, and obviously, as you reported earlier, this does not cast a very rosy picture for the japanese financial conditions. >> steve, what do you think this reve...

Let me ask you, how bad do you think this will be in economic terms for japan? >> as you reported earlier, i think it's far too early to assess. the japanese government has announced that we will probably be getting tremors continuously for over a month, far too early to assess these damages. so far, it's been very clear that a lot of infrastructures have been hit, particularly on the transportation side, procurement side, which would take a very long time to restore. if you look at the past example, for example, in the kobe earthquake, we had two supplementary budgets the year after the earth...