compensation
June 07, 2013
Bowing to strong pressure from the business lobby, the government is set to consider a policy change that would assign patents on in-house inventions to companies instead of...
June 06, 2013
Time is running out for the more than 10,000 evacuees from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant disaster to seek damage compensation from plant operator Tokyo Electric Power ...
June 03, 2013
FUKUSHIMA--Compensation payments are expected to take a financial toll on Tokyo Electric Power Co. after redress cases strengthened for bereaved families and victims of stress...
May 30, 2013
The Namie municipal government, acting on behalf of its residents, asked an independent organization on May 29 to more than triple monthly benefits for psychological suffering...
May 26, 2013
A United Nations expert who investigated the aftermath of Japan's 2011 nuclear power plant disaster says the government and the operator of the facility should do more to help...
May 23, 2013
LONDON--Amnesty International criticized Japan's inaction on the issue of "comfort women" in its annual report on the state of human rights around the world, released on May 23.
May 21, 2013
Hundreds of residents and evacuees from just outside Fukushima Prefecture say they have been unfairly denied full compensation despite high radiation levels in their area...
April 24, 2013
Solidarity clearly has no place in Japan's nuclear power industry.
March 12, 2013
On the symbolic second anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, 1,650 residents and evacuees filed lawsuits on March 11 against the central government and Tokyo Electric ...
February 22, 2013
Relatives of seven patients who died in the course of evacuating a hospital near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear disaster site are planning to sue the plant operator for...
February 05, 2013
Fukushima nuclear plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Feb. 4 received approval to tap the Japanese government for $7.5 billion more funds to compensate those harmed by...
January 31, 2013
BEIJING--A Chinese man sent to a labor camp for a joke about Bo Xilai said he was awarded minimal compensation by a court on Jan. 31, in what could be a blow to others jailed...
December 20, 2012
Embattled Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, will push for a further financial bailout from the new government taking power ...
December 14, 2012
SEOUL, South Korea--A South Korean government agency said Dec. 14 that working at a Samsung Electronics factory caused the breast cancer of a worker who died earlier this year, ...
November 25, 2012
BEIJING--In the middle of an eastern Chinese city's new main road, rising incongruously from a huge circle in the freshly laid pavement, is a five-story row house with ragged...
November 10, 2012
Tokyo Electric Power Co. will be hard-pressed to post a profit in fiscal 2013 if it is unable to restart some of its nuclear reactors in the months ahead, TEPCO President Naomi ...
October 11, 2012
In early September, I traveled during my summer vacation to the southern city of Jinju, South Korea, about a one-hour bus ride on the expressway from Busan.
August 15, 2012
Japan is to help Vietnam set up a compensation plan for nuclear accidents, despite criticism that its own system fails to meet victims’ needs.
July 10, 2012
The government’s review of Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s application for raising household electricity rates is now in its final stage.
June 28, 2012
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--After catching a decent number of sea bass in Sendai Bay, Hisayoshi Otomo went through the normal routine of weighing the fish at a pier--and...