The Japanese government has no responsibility, the country’s Supreme Court ruled today in a lawsuit to compensate people whose lives were destroyed by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, according to Japanese media, in a first decision in a series of similar cases. .
A tsunami triggered by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake off the northeast coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 struck Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco)’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, causing the worst nuclear disaster in the world since that of Chernobyl. Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to flee their homes.
The plaintiffs have sought compensation from Tepco and the country in various class actions they have filed, and in March the Supreme Court upheld a $ 1.4 billion yen compensation order from Tepco to some 3,700 people.
A total of 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: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ
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