On Fri­day, it was re­port­ed that the gov­ern­ment planned to is­sue more than 10 tril­lion yen in emer­gency bonds to pay for the re­con­struc­tion and that the cen­tral bank would ful­ly un­der­write the is­sue. But Yosano and oth­er gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials de­nied the re­port, say­ing no such plan was in place.The Nikkei said the gov­ern­ment was al­so dis­cussing cre­at­ing a re­cov­ery fund that would pro­vide medi­um- to long-term lend­ing for firms di­rect­ly hit by the dis­as­ter. How­ev­er, set­ting up such a fund would re­quire sev­er­al changes to the law. (Reuters)