The Government of Japan is not responsible, said today Supreme Court of the country, in a case for compensation of people whose lives were ruined by Fukushima nuclear disasteraccording to the Japanese media, in a first decision in a series of similar cases.
A tsunami triggered by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake which occurred off the northeast coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant of Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), causing the worst nuclear disaster in the world since Chernobyl. Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to flee their homes.
The plaintiffs have sought compensation by Tepco and by the country in various class actions that have been filed and in March the Supreme Court upheld a court order from Tepco to pay compensation of 1.4 billion yen to approximately 3,700 people.
In total, according to the APE-MPE, about 470,000 people were forced to flee their homes in the first days after the disaster and tens of thousands are still unable to return even now.
Lower courts had been divided over the extent of the government’s responsibility to anticipate the disaster and to have instructed Tepco to take action to prevent it.
Source: News Beast
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