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COMPENSATION

JAPAN / Society
May 13, 2017
In Fukushima, a land where few return
The evacuation orders for most of the village of Iitate have been lifted. But where are the people?
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 23, 2016
Family's pain over 2006 Yokosuka murder reflects desire for SOFA rethink
Justice has been a long time coming for Masanori Yamazaki, whose common-law wife was murdered by a drunk U.S. sailor in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, 10 years ago, in an unprovoked assault.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 21, 2016
Sources say VW may offer to buy back nearly 500,000 U.S. diesel cars
Volkswagen AG and U.S. officials have reached a framework deal under which the automaker would offer to buy back almost 500,000 diesel cars that used sophisticated software to evade U.S. emission rules, two people briefed on the matter said on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Dec 26, 2015
Civilian casualties of WWII left out in the cold
'Unbroken," Angelina Jolie's 2014 film about the late American Olympic athlete Louie Zamperini, will finally receive a theatrical release in Japan next year after inciting the ire of local groups who claim its depiction of Japanese prisoner of war camps is sensationally harsh and thus an expression of...
EDITORIALS
Sep 22, 2015
Justice for A-bomb victims overseas
The Supreme Court issues a much-welcomed decisive ruling that atomic-bomb victims living abroad deserve full medical coverage by the Japanese government.
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2015
Fukushima compensation increased to ¥7 trillion
The government has approved an increase in compensation payments for the Fukushima nuclear crisis to ¥7.07 trillion as tens of thousands of evacuees remain in temporary housing more than four years after the disaster.
EDITORIALS
Oct 24, 2014
Patent law must retain incentives
As the government drafts amendments to the patent law, the question is how effective the new rules will be in ensuring fair corporate remuneration to inventors so that they keep their engineering talent in Japan to enhance the nation's industrial competitiveness.
JAPAN
Aug 13, 2014
Japan paid ¥380 million in compensation for accidents by U.S. military personnel
Over the past decade, Japan has ponied up a hefty sum to help compensate victims of accidents caused by U.S. military personnel or civilian employees.
WORLD
Jul 1, 2014
GM fund for ignition defect victims to offer wide eligibility
The compensation fund for victims of General Motors Co's defective ignition switch will be open to a broad range of people, with family members of those who died as a result eligible for at least $1 million, the attorney in charge of the fund said Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 13, 2014
Chinese families suing Japan Inc. for war redress in bigger numbers
As relations between Beijing and Tokyo plumb a new low, the descendants of hundreds of Chinese men forced to work in wartime Japan are taking big, modern-day Japanese corporations to court, seeking millions in compensation.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jan 27, 2014
War redress reversal in South Korea
Recent South Korean court rulings ordering Japanese firms to compensate Koreans who were forced to perform labor for them during the war have cast a shadow on already strained bilateral ties.
EDITORIALS
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.
JAPAN
Aug 21, 2013
Tepco caused suicide, wife tells court
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.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 31, 2013
Widow in farmer suicide sues Tepco
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.

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