Tepco ordered to pay over suicide linked to nuclear evacuation
Source: Kyodo
Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Tuesday was again held responsible for a suicide linked to the 2011 nuclear crisis and ordered to pay damages.
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It is the second time that a court has determined there was a link between the nuclear disaster and a suicide, and ordered the utility to pay damages.
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Although more than four years have passed since the powerful earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, triggered the country’s worst nuclear crisis, suicides linked to the event continue as more than 100,000 people remain evacuated in and around Fukushima.
Sixty-nine suicides in Fukushima Prefecture committed by the end of May have been deemed linked to the earthquake-tsunami or nuclear disasters, according to the Cabinet Office.
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Read more: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/30/national/crime-legal/tepco-ordered-pay-suicide-linked-nuclear-evacuation/#.VZKp59Hn9dg
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Outrageous, but understandable. People lose their homes and lively hood, loved ones to the Tsunami, businesses, living in shelters with over 50 other people, in a cramped room with bad air, little access to facilities, water..and having to share food..with little privacy. One could imagine the depression they had to go through...unbearable pressure. I can not even imagine it... sonna koto naiyo! (its not right)
