A government panel setting guidelines for compensation to be paid to victims of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant disaster said Friday that about ¥6 million should be given to every individual unable to return home for five years because of radiation contamination.
The sum is to compensate for the mental suffering of evacuees whose homes "are in a zone where it is difficult to return for a long time," one of the new categories soon to be created by the government in reclassifying the no-go areas around the plant.
The people from the so-called difficult-to-return areas, meaning places uninhabitable within the next five years, should also be paid the full value of their real estate, as calculated just before the megaquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, triggered the triple-meltdown crisis, according to the guidelines.