Court backs Fukushima nuclear crisis evacuees' compensation demand

A Japanese court ordered the state and the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant Wednesday to pay a combined 419 million yen ($3.78 million) in damages to evacuees from the 2011 nuclear disaster.The order by the Yokohama District Court was the eighth such decision against Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. and fifth against the central government.A total of 175 plaintiffs, most of whom were forced to evacuate Fukushima for Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo following the disaster, triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami, had sought a combined 5.4 billion yen from the ut…READ FULL ARTICLE