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Article

19 Feb 2016

Author:
Yuto Yoneda, Asahi Shimbun (Japan)

Japan: TEPCO ordered to pay couple who 'voluntarily' fled Fukushima after nuclear disaster

The Kyoto District Court ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. to pay 30.46 million yen ($267,000) to a couple for mental illnesses the husband suffered following their “voluntary evacuation” from the Fukushima nuclear disaster...The ruling was the first to award damages to voluntary evacuees, according to a private group of lawyers involved in lawsuits against TEPCO and the central government over the nuclear disaster… The court acknowledged the man suffered severe mental stress because he had to leave his hometown and quit his position as representative of the company.