{"id":32599,"date":"2019-02-20T05:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T05:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32599"},"modified":"2019-02-20T05:24:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T05:24:00","slug":"japan-fukushima-operator-told-to-pay-over-2011-nuclear-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32599","title":{"rendered":"Japan, Fukushima operator told  to pay over 2011 nuclear disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"105\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">A court in Japan has awarded nearly $4m in new damages to 152 residents forced to flee their houses after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown eight years ago,\u00a0<span>the world&#8217;s most serious nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Yokohama district court on Wednesday ordered the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) to pay 419.6m yen ($3.8m) to the local residents, a court spokeswoman told AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Triggered by a magnitude 9.1 earthquake, a tsunami\u00a0crashed into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in March 2011, overwhelming reactor cooling systems, causing multiple meltdowns and sending radiation over a large area that forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Nearly 19,000 people were killed or left missing and 160,000 lost their homes and livelihoods in the massive earthquake and tsunami.<\/p>\n<p>Presiding judge Ken Nakadaira said the government and TEPCO &#8220;could have avoided the accident if they had taken measures&#8221; against the tsunami, according to public broadcaster NHK.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict was the fifth time the government has been ruled liable for the disaster in eastern Japan.<\/p>\n<p>In March last year, a court in Kyoto, western Japan, ruled both the government and TEPCO were responsible and ordered them to pay 110m yen to 110 residents.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a separate case in September 2017 in Chiba near Tokyo, the court ruled that only the operator was liable.<\/p>\n<p>Around 12,000 people who fled after the disaster due to radiation fears have filed various lawsuits against the government and TEPCO.<\/p>\n<p>Cases have revolved around whether the government and TEPCO, both of whom are responsible for disaster prevention measures, could have foreseen the scale of the tsunami and subsequent meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of class-action lawsuits have been filed seeking compensation from the government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court in Japan has awarded nearly $4m in new damages to 152 residents forced to flee their houses after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown eight years ago,\u00a0the world&#8217;s most serious nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. The Yokohama district court on Wednesday ordered the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) to pay 419.6m yen&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}