Sep 22, 2013

Protecting kids from disaster

In the first ruling of its kind, a Sendai court orders a kindergarten to pay compensation for the deaths of four children in a school bus engulfed by the March 11, 2011, tsunami.

Aug 21, 2013

Tepco caused suicide, wife tells court

by Tomohiro Osaki

A suit opens against Tepco, with a Filipino woman from Fukushima Prefecture seeking about ¥126 million over the death of her Japanese husband, who committed suicide when his business faltered amid the nuclear plant crisis.

Jun 7, 2013

Kenya's Mau Mau victims to get damages

Britain on Thursday was expected to announce compensation for thousands of Kenyans who claim they were tortured in prison camps during the 1950s Mau Mau Uprising, according to a government source. Around 5,000 claimants are each in line to receive more than £2,500 ($3,850), ...

Jun 7, 2013

Over 10,000 people have yet to apply for redress from Tepco

An estimated 11,000 of 160,000 residents in 13 coastal municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture have yet to file compensation claims over the nuclear crisis, it was learned Thursday. Their right to request redress from Tokyo Electric Power Co. may expire as early as September 2014 ...

Widow in farmer suicide sues Tepco

May 31, 2013

Widow in farmer suicide sues Tepco

by Tomohiro Osaki

A Filipino woman whose Japanese husband committed suicide after his dairy farming business was decimated by the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster is suing Tokyo Electric Power Co. for about ¥126 million. “Had there not been that nuclear disaster, he would still be alive,” ...

Kin of expressway tunnel collapse victims sue operator

May 16, 2013

Kin of expressway tunnel collapse victims sue operator

A group of parents filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking ¥890 million in damages from Central Nippon Expressway Co., operator of a tunnel that collapsed in December and killed nine people. In the suit filed at the Yokohama District Court, the families of five of ...