The continent. Considered the final frontier for car sales. A Fukushima Court has ruled that the 2011 Nuclear Accident was to blame for evacuees suicide. It has ordered Tokyo Electric Power company to compensate the womans family. It is the first such ruling against the utility. The Fukushima District Court acknowledged causal links between the accident at the fukushimadaiichi Nuclear Plant and suicide. It ordered tepco to pay nearly half a Million Dollars in damages. The presiding judge said the accident caused the woman great mental anguish. The evacuationye was forced to leave home after the Nuclear Accident. When she was allowed to return for a short visit in 2011, she doused herself in gasoline and set herself on fire. Watanabes home is 35 kilometers from the Nuclear Plant. The area is a designated evacuation zone. Her husband and three children say her death was caused by depression. They say as evacuee she faced an uncertain future. Tepco offered condolences and says it will stu
Now, the United Nations top expert offers his perspective. The family of a man who committed suicide after the Fukushima Nuclear accident is taking action. The 102yearold refused an order to evacuate his home near the Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011. Now his relatives are prepared to sue the company that runs the crippled facility. The village of iitate has been empty for over three years. It is 30 kilometers from the Nuclear Plant and one month after the accident, the japanese government ordered residents to leave. The day after the evacuation order, fumio okubo killed himself at home. He was the oldest resident of the village and said he couldnt leave the place where he had spent a century. Okubos daughterinlaw, mieko, is one of three relatives who are planning to file lawsuit against tepco in the tokyo district court. She says he should have had the chance to pass away peacefully in his hometown, surrounded by his loved ones. She says the purpose of the lawsuit is for her, and her r