Compensation awarded over 102-year-old man’s suicide due to Fukushima crisis

FUKUSHIMA – A court awarded Tuesday ¥15.2 million ($142,000) in damages to the family of a 102-year-old man who killed himself in the face of an order to flee from his home as the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis was unfolding. Mieko Okubo ,the daughter in-law of Fumio Okubo who hanged him self at age 102 The … Continue reading Compensation awarded over 102-year-old man’s suicide due to Fukushima crisis