An appeals court upholds an acquittal of three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. who were accused of failing to prevent the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northeastern Japan.
A Japanese court orders a nuclear power plant in Hokkaido to remain halted as requested by over 1,000 plaintiffs for safety concerns, in a rare decision handed down in the midst of an operator seeking permission from authorities to restart the plant.