Business owners concerned over end of compensation proposal

Business owners concerned over end of compensation proposal

Yuichi Harada, head of the Namie town chamber of commerce and industry in Fukushima Prefecture, speaks in Nihonmatsu in the northeastern Japanese prefecture on May 25, 2015. He expressed his objection to a proposal to end in fiscal 2016 compensation paid to businesses affected by evacuation after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. That was formulated by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's Headquarters for Accelerating Reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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