Court orders gov't, TEPCO to pay Y110 mil in damages to Fukushima evacuees

So one million yen per ruined life? That amount only adds insult to injury.

¥110 million is a pittance for having your life ruined. Most of these people would have lost more than that in salaries over the first few months of the evacuation. There isn’t enough money in Japan to fully compensate all the victims of this man-made disaster, which was caused by their pigheadedness and money saving scams. The CEO of the time has already died and was posthumously scapegoated. There are still plenty of other TEPCO executives and politicians who should be going to jail.

Agree with all of the above. This is a miscarriage of justice

Headline should read 'Court orders Taxpayers and TEPCO to pay .....'

@since. You bet me to that one.

How much would it have cost to build a safe NPP? A lot less than that.

actually, construction, staff, maintaince, retirement Golden parashoots, dealing with all the small accidents like cranes falling in fuel pools, maintaining security from terrorism, obtaining and transporting materials, storing them, bribing local authorities and communities and then the biggie...decommissions and safely storing for one thousands years highly radioactive materials on a group of islands on the worlds worst faultlines and many many active volcanoes.

i think 50billion is rather conservative.

It's very easy to change your electricity supplier these days if you are unhappy with TEPCO. We have already switched to Tokyo Gas, which is also cheaper.

That is a Slap in the face to families who have lost Everything in this disaster which could have been avoided with higher seawalls & to throw gas on the fire the citizens will wind up paying ! No Shame at all on the part of these Tepco honcho's at all !

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Another court order that just sucks for the population

zichi - thanks for the information. The saving is not large for us and we changed for both reasons - my wife is from Fukushima prefecture so isn't a fan of TEPCO to say the least. I'll look into a more sustainable provider sometime. Some solar panels would be lovely but we don't have the spare money at the moment.

The main rreason to the damage from the Tsunami was that the wall was to lpow. The nuckear company wanted to build it higher but was not allowed to do that. Why not punished them responsible for that decision.

I have solar hehehe. I make a profit, hehehe. Next is an electric car when I win the lottery.

Wow... $10,000 bucks per person or family. How much are they still paying for another 20 years or more on the houses they've had to abandon in some cases? The entire businesses lost while TEPCO was bailed out? TIJ