tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786783108846468976.post8887149170262997764..comments2024-03-03T02:40:44.015-06:00Comments on The Hemlock Tea Room and Ladies' Emporium: FUKUSHIMA EVACUEES' FORCED RETURN: BAN ON JAPANESE IMPORTS CONTINUEUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786783108846468976.post-64509067928932085222018-03-22T10:01:49.376-05:002018-03-22T10:01:49.376-05:00Regulator to increase staff to respond to Fukushim... <br />Regulator to increase staff to respond to Fukushima nuclear lawsuits.<br />Japan Today, 03/22/2018 <br />Japan's nuclear regulator will increase its staff from this spring to deal with nuclear lawsuits filed against the state following the Fukushima crisis, hiring a prosecutor as well, sources close to the matter said Wednesday. The secretariat of the Nuclear Regulation Authority will increase the number of staff at an office in charge of litigation to 22. The secretariat said it is handling a total of 45 lawsuits as of March 1, of which 29 are suits filed by over 10,000 plaintiffs nationwide, including evacuees and victims of the Fukushima accident who are seeking damages from the state for causing the disaster.<br /><br />Among the 29 lawsuits, four of the five district courts that have handed down rulings ordered the state to pay damages to the plaintiffs by rejecting the state's claim that the accident "could not be foreseen."<br />But a lawyer representing the plaintiffs has criticized the move, saying that the state should not insist on fighting lawsuits.<br /><br />Izutaro Managi, a member of a lawyers' group representing some 3,800 evacuees and accident victims in a lawsuit seeking damages from the state and the operator of the plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, said, "The aim of the authority's secretariat is to strengthen the state's claim that it is not liable for causing the accident and to win lawsuits."<br /><br />"The state should rather reflect on the accident and accept its responsibility," he said.<br />Waninahihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05714851314831283910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786783108846468976.post-52045798674487420602018-03-22T09:54:46.339-05:002018-03-22T09:54:46.339-05:00The Mainichi, March 22, 2018 (Mainichi Japan)
Pro... The Mainichi, March 22, 2018 (Mainichi Japan)<br /><br />Proposed storage of spent nuclear fuel sparks resistance in Aomori Pref. city. Alongside concerns about the storage of nuclear fuel, there are also deeply rooted aspirations regarding the operation of nuclear power plants in the region. Mutsu Mayor Soichiro Miyashita immediately held a news conference, saying he had heard no such thing from the central government, KEPCO, or RFS. "The feelings of the region are being completely ignored," he said. <br />Waninahihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05714851314831283910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786783108846468976.post-18103930443670544092018-03-22T09:49:07.882-05:002018-03-22T09:49:07.882-05:00 THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
March 22, 2018
SEVEN YEARS AF... THE ASAHI SHIMBUN<br />March 22, 2018 <br />SEVEN YEARS AFTER: Only trickle of former residents returning home to Fukushima. <br />Close to a year after evacuation orders were lifted in four municipalities near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, only 6.1 percent of evacuees have returned to live in their former communities. Close to 70 percent of the respondents said the measures taken by the central and local governments leading up to the lifting of the evacuation order on March 31 and April 1, 2017, were insufficient.<br />http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201803220049.html Waninahihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05714851314831283910noreply@blogger.com