102-yr-old's suicide in nuclear crisis

102-yr-old's suicide in nuclear crisis

Mieko Okubo holds a photo of her father-in-law Fumio Okubo in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 15, 2018. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, said March 1 that it will pay damages to the family of Okubo, who killed himself at the age of 102 in April 2011 in the face of an evacuation order amid the nuclear crisis. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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