Tokyo Electric Power Co. must compensate travel agencies, inns and hotels nationwide for cancellations made by foreign travelers fearing radiation from Tepco's stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, a government panel said Friday.
The panel under the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry also said, in an interim report on the scope of Tepco's compensation, that the utility must expand its compensation to the tea, flower, beef and manufacturing industries.
The amount of damages was not specified, nor was how a utility that has suffered a massive net-worth devaluation and vast other redress demands would be able to cough up the compensatory funds.