The government plans to provide about 50 million yen in subsidies for school excursion programs to Okinawa, which has seen a sharp fall in tourism since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, government officials said.
The plan was included in stopgap measures compiled Thursday to help the prefecture's struggling economy.
A committee set up within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to examine Okinawa's economic development approved the measures the same day.