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Temporary Injunction against Resumed Operation of Ikata Unit 3 Reactor The Hiroshima High Court issued a provisional decision on January 17 forbidding operation of the Unit 3 reactor at Shikoku Electric Power Company’s Ikata...
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TEPCO Criminal Trial: Defendants Acquitted
– Court Went Completely Out of its Way to Rescue TEPCO Executives by Kaido Yuichi (attorney representing injured parties in TEPCO criminal trial) Failure to acknowledge damage done and debasement of safety In its...
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Trial Conclusion and Sentencing in Fukushima Nuclear Accident Criminal Suit Set for September 19 The Tokyo District Court has set 19 September 2019 as the date for trial conclusion and sentencing of the three...
Hiroshima High Court’s ruling suspends operations at Ikata Nuclear Power Plant Unit 3
On December 13, 2017, the Hiroshima High Court ordered a temporary injunction suspending operations at Shikoku Electric Power Company’s Ikata NPP Unit 3. It is the first time that a Japanese high court has...
Court recognizes liability of the government and TEPCO in the Nariwai (livelihoods) Trial
The verdict in the “Give us back our livelihoods, give us back our communities” trial, which residents of Fukushima who had become evacuees due to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) accident...
First Court Day of TEPCO Executives Criminal Trial ~Description of the Hearing
The first court day of the case against former TEPCO executives Tsunehisa Katsumata, Ichiro Takekuro and Sakae Muto for professional negligence leading to fatalities was held on June 30, 2017 in Tokyo District...
Ex-nuclear worker suffering from leukemia files lawsuit for industrial accident compensation
Developments up to the trialIn 2011, a 42-year-old welder from Fukuoka Prefecture nicknamed “Arakabu-san”1 went to Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) with an ardent desire to help the people in the disaster-hit...
Two recent CNIC Statements: Maebashi District Court ruling on compensation for Fukushima Daiichi victims & Osaka High Court ruling on restarting Takahama NPP
CNIC recently released two statements on court cases related to nuclear issues, which we have translated into English so that international readers can see our position on these important court rulings as well as...
Court cases associated with nuclear facilities in Japan (NIT No. 172)
As reported briefly in the last edition of NIT, there was an important legal victory for nuclear activists in Japan on March 9th this year when the Otsu District Court issued a provisional injunction...
Former nuclear plant worker Ryusuke Umeda’s legal action for workers’ compensation Important testimony discloses the harsh reality of the work environment in NPPs -Nuke Info Tokyo No. 168
In 1979, Ryusuke Umeda was engaged in periodic inspections of the Shimane-1 and Tsuruga-1 nuclear power plants and suffered a myocardial infarction in March 2000. He filed an application for workers’ compensation with the...
