TEPCO ordered to pay Y1.1 bil in damages to Fukushima residents

It should be 1.1 billion dollars! However, TEPCO will cry broke and the money will come from public funds. Perfect!

Actually... the damage amount sounds fair to me... roughly Y3.4 million each. Remember, this is a "pain and suffering" damage and has nothing to do with "physical" damage. Do you really think Japan should start handing out large U.S. style monetary verdicts.

The pain and suffering caused loss of home, land and forced removal from the area one lives in must be worth more than that. In country areas for many home would be ancestral home. Many would have lived all their lives in the area. Many would still be working and would lose their jobs. Displacement would have resulted in a loss of friends, and friends are hard for old people to replace. Others would have lost their beloved pets as well. Add to this the suffering caused by living in the evacuation facilities, and I would say 3.4 million each is a bargain for TEPCO.

SaikoPhysco - Actually... the damage amount sounds fair to me.

Fair? These people were displaced and have been for the past seven years. Most of them lost their livelihoods in the process. I fail to see how one year of minimum salary can be a ‘fair’ compensation for seven years of hell.

As much as I sympathise with the residents who are enduring such hardship, I know that TEPCO will just raise the cost of my monthly bill effectively passing on their debt to me and all their other "customers" (Like we have a choice??)

How is that punishing them?

Their stocks and shares should be publically sold off and the money raised from that should be used to compensate the victims.

There was a premium attached to power bills ment to cover a disaster, obviously wasn't enough. Now we all have to pay for most of our liftimes. 7 years living in temporary housing. Coitus that. Leaks, mold while those who caused the disaster get a bonus retirement package. Obscene

Utter disgrace. This is less than entertainment sandwich and juice expenses for large corporations like these.

Actually... the damage amount sounds fair to me... roughly Y3.4 million each. Remember, this is a "pain and suffering" damage and has nothing to do with "physical" damage.

That means you’ve made a calculation. Do share.

TEPCO in this instance will mean TAXPAYERS.

That's a lot of money. Each of the plaintiffs can now buy a new car ;)

GE & TEPCO should pay but no such money should come from our taxes or bills.

All execs of both companies from the moment plant was conceived, their families and relatives should forcefully forfeit all their assets to help pay.

I don't see any reason whatsoever for our taxes to pay for their emotional damage, since they have agreed to build them plant there in the first places and were compensated by government for that in advance.

The risk was always there, as it is with any nuclear plant.

@ SaikoPhysco

Do you really think Japan should start handing out large U.S. style monetary verdicts.

Japan?....NO!

Japanese companies guilty of neglect....Certainly!

(Even GOV backed ones!)

That's a lot of money. Each of the plaintiffs can now buy a new car ;)

You probably wouldn’t choose that car against not having to live the experience they did, if you honestly pose the question to yourself.

A car? Happy face? My home, my life my friends gone and a car happy face? Thankyou TEPCO and thankyou Government for all your care and concern. May I pay more tax.