TEPCO Ordered To Pay $400,000+ In Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Suicide Lawsuit

Fukushima court rules against nuclear operator in suicide lawsuit.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/08...

This man's wife dowsed herself in kerosene and set herself on fire after they lost everything, due to the consequences of radiation contamination due to the Fukushima mega nuclear disaster. 

There are hundreds, and possibly thousands of people who committed suicide after the Fukushima mega disaster. Up to 300,000 radiation refugees were forced out of their homes after the 3/11 mega nuclear disaster in Japan, and many of them are still living in 'temporary' housing in 2014, three or more years after the disaster. 

2014 - Japanese Government Moving People Into Areas with Up To 10 Times Maximum Nuclear Workers Annual Radiation Exposure Limit; via @AGreenRoad
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2014/03/2014-japanese-government-moving-people.html

Students Sent To Radiation Contaminated Fukushima Province Via 'Exchange' Program From All Around The World; via @AGreenRoad
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2014/04/students-sent-to-highly-radiation.html

The Japanese government is trying to move many of those refugees back into very radiation contaminated areas, by claiming that they 'decontaminated' these areas and that they are now safe to live in. But are those areas really safe?  

LANDMARK LEGAL CASE AROUND STRESS CAUSED BY NUCLEAR ACCIDENT

CNN - TEPCO ordered to pay compensation in landmark Fukushima suicide case

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/27/world/asia/japan-fukushima-health-effects/

Japanese court rules that nuclear plant operator Tepco is liable for suicide accident," said Tsuguo Hirota. "Today's verdict will greatly influence future lawsuits."http://www.smh.com.au/world/japanese-court-rules-that-nuclear-plant-operator-tepco-is-liable-for-suicide-20140827-108vwq.html#ixzz3BdZCk7zl

TEPCO ADMITS THAT FUKUSHIMA PLAYED A PART IN FARMER'S SUICIDE

Tokyo Electric Power has conceded the Fukushima nuclear meltdown disaster played a part in a farmer's 2011 suicide, lawyers said Thursday, its first admission of culpability in such a case.

JURIST LEGAL NEWS SERVICE

rogerthat August 27, 2014 "(Paper Chase is JURIST's real-time legal news service, powered by a team of 30 law student reporters and editors led by law professor Bernard Hibbitts at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. As an educational service, Paper Chase is dedicated to presenting important legal news and materials rapidly, objectively and intelligibly in an accessible format.)"

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/26/national/social-issues/fukushimas-high-number-disaster-related-suicides-likely-due-nuclear-crisis-cabinet-office/#.U_3LcULLjao

http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/08/japan-court-finds-fukushima-power-plant-operator-liable-for-womans-suicide.php

For those who follow legal news, this service may be valuable to follow and pay attention to as the legal profession takes on the nuclear industry, in the same way that it happened with the tobacco industry.

AJW ASAHI EDITORIAL - HOW TO REDUCE STRESS OF 300,000 FUKUSHIMA RADIATION REFUGEES AND SURVIVORS

Society must find ways to reduce stress of Fukushima survivors

Since the nuclear accident brought drastic changes to the environment and the lives of the affected people, it is difficult to deny the causal relationship between the accident and Watanabe's suicide. It was a reasonable verdict. … The court verdict reminds us anew of the unending nature of the suffering that the triple meltdown has brought. So far, any connection between the accident and the suicides has been kept vague. There were cases where TEPCO flatly denied causality in negotiations for compensation, or offered to pay only paltry sums that were nowhere near what the bereaved families sought. In Watanabe's lawsuit, TEPCO effectively hinted at the weakness of her character as the cause of her suicide. The utility ought to be thoroughly ashamed of itself for making such an allegation.

Whether she was strong or weak is irrelevant. There is no excuse for causing Watanabe so much stress as to drive her to suicide …

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/views/editorial/AJ201408270026

People might want to ask themselves; does an average person have a 'right' to live in peace and freedom, free from the stress caused by a nuclear accident or disaster? Do people have a right to ask and get compensation for the stress, health harm, and damages such as loss of property, soil, forests, business, etc, caused by nuclear accidents and disasters? TEPCO claims that nothing bad happened at Fukushima, but is that the truth, or is it just another nuclear industry PR move?

2014 - Tokyo, Japan Should Be Evacuated Says Dr Mita MD, Most Of Japan Radiation Contaminated After The Fukushima Mega Nuclear Disaster; via @AGreenRoad
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/tokyo-is-it-safe-to-visit-or-live-in.html

Maybe more individuals will step forward and file lawsuits after enduring years of stress, financial burdens, and losses of property, family members and more. AGRP predicts that as more people become aware of the many lies, deceptions and cover ups around Fukushima, that many more lawsuits will be filed.

SACRIFICIAL NUCLEAR REFUGEES POEM 

or-well September 4, 2014

Nuke refugees – what an annoyance -
they run from their jobs
and stop paying their mortgage!
They run away, want financial assistance
and when told to go back
they offer resistance!
They want shelter and blankets and even hot meals
but they can't afford shopping for the latest deals
so they aren't even helping to grease profit's wheels!
They just bug everybody, making constant appeals
for attention and health care for their sick kids
like it's our fault they're ill when it's really stress
induced by the parents who think they know best,
ignoring Nuke Science and all those good rads
- it's hormesis! -
and that can be proved by our Health Physicists
who know radiophobia is what creates cysts
so we're ending compensation and then we'll insist
they all go back home and be consumerists."

SUMMARY

The nuclear industry keeps on saying that radiation does not cause diseases or death, and that no one died and no one will die from Fukushima radiation. The nuclear industry does admit and say that excessive stress and worry is what is causing all of the diseases and deaths from Fukushima. Now there is a clear precedent that stress and worry, which the nuclear industry admits is caused by nuclear accidents, causes deaths by suicide. 

Maybe this crack in the door can be opened a little bit more by going to diseases and deaths caused by stress and fear, in relationship to nuclear accidents. Lawsuits may be one of the things that will shut down the nuclear industry, as it threatens the very bright future of the human race. 

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TEPCO Ordered To Pay $400,000+ In Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Suicide Lawsuit
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