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TEPCO and Others Financially Aiding Japan Atomic Power Co. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) and Tohoku Electric Power Co. have decided to provide new aid on top of that which they have provided...
Category: Fukushima Daiichi Evacuees
Nuclear Accident Evacuees Coerced into Meeting Independence Deadline
by Seto Daisaku, Secretary General, Evacuation Cooperation Center Eight years on from the TEPCO Fukushima nuclear accident, the government and Fukushima Prefecture, while making appeals for the reconstruction of Fukushima, are attempting to end...
Fukushima Evacuees Abandoned by the Government
Evacuation orders for nearly all the areas evacuated were rescinded in March 2017, and at the same time, provision of housing was discontinued for evacuees from areas with no current evacuation orders. In this...
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...
Evacuation Orders Lifted for Iitate, Kawamata, Namie, Tomioka
The Japanese government has lifted evacuation orders for zones it had designated as “areas to which evacuation orders are ready to be lifted” and “areas in which residents are not permitted to live” as...
