733810 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.metro.us/japans-top-court-orders/Public broadcaster NHK said the average payout of about 380,000 yen ($3,290) for each plaintiff covered three class-action lawsuits, among more than 30 against the utility, which are the first to be finalised. A massive tsunami unleashed by an earthquake of magnitude 9.2022-03-04T10:16+0100metro-us-28b847b55b19ce43a368f11c544a741920220304101600https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/fukushima-disaster-victims-win-damages-from-tepco-in-japans-highest-court-reportTOKYO (REUTERS) - Japan’s Supreme Court on Friday (March 4) upheld an order for utility Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) to pay damages of 1.4 billion yen (S$16.5 million) to about 3,700 people whose lives were devastated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the first decision of its kind.2022-03-04T10:06+0100straitstimesSG-12f73404a0fe67c4cdef32c60fd79e1f20220304100600https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japans-top-court-orders-damages-fukushima-victims-landmark-decision-nhk-2022-03-04/TOKYO, March 4 (Reuters) - Japan's Supreme Court upheld an order for utility Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) (9501.T) to pay damages of 1.4 billion yen ($12 million) to about 3,700 people whose lives were devastated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the first decision of its kind.2022-03-04T10:05+0100reuters-89cc7f4feb97ca775ad0fef2cfc99e6620220304100500https://www.rappler.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-top-court-orders-damages-fukushima-victims-landmark-decision-march-4-2022/TOKYO, Japan – Japan’s Supreme Court upheld an order for utility Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) 9501.T to pay damages of 1.4 billion yen ($12 million) to about 3,700 people whose lives were devastated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the first decision of its kind.2022-03-04T09:54+0100rappler-066ad0a29653a15f3b07bf12f6eac3a320220304095400