Court rejects suit by ex-fishermen over Bikini Atoll H-bomb tests

Court rejects suit by ex-fishermen over Bikini Atoll H-bomb tests

Plaintiffs suing the state in connection with the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb tests on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific head to the Kochi District Court in western Japan on July 20, 2018, to hear its ruling. The court rejected their damages claim that authorities had hidden key information about the nuclear tests. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

  • Product Code
  • ILEA000138587
  • Registered date
  • 2018/7/20 13:30:42
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2018 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 2980 × 2128 pixel
  • Resolution
  • 240 dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 1.26(MB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    Lawsuit over kids' death in tsunami in northeastern Japan

    Lawsuit over kids' death in tsunami in northeastern Japan

    Hiroyuki Konno, who represents plaintiffs in a damages lawsuit filed by families of school children killed in the March 2011 tsunami in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, speaks at a press conference in the northeastern Japan city, on May 7, 2018. Konno was responding to the city's decision to appeal to the Supreme Court a high court ruling that acknowledged local authorities' responsibility in the deaths of the children. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
      Lawsuit over kids' death in tsunami in northeastern Japan

      Lawsuit over kids' death in tsunami in northeastern Japan

      Hiroyuki Konno, who represents plaintiffs in a damages lawsuit filed by families of school children killed in the March 2011 tsunami in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, speaks at a press conference in the northeastern Japan city, on May 7, 2018. Konno was responding to the city's decision to appeal to the Supreme Court a high court ruling that acknowledged local authorities' responsibility in the deaths of the children. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
        Damages payment to Fukushima disaster evacuees

        Damages payment to Fukushima disaster evacuees

        Atsuko Fukushima (L), a co-representative of plaintiffs who filed a damages suit over their evacuation following the March 2011 nuclear crisis in Japan, holds a joint news conference with their lawyer, Yasuo Tanabe, in Kyoto on March 15, 2018, after the Kyoto District Court ordered the state and the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to pay 110 million yen in damages to 110 of 174 plaintiffs. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
          Damages payment to Fukushima disaster evacuees

          Damages payment to Fukushima disaster evacuees

          Lawyers representing evacuees from the March 2011 nuclear crisis in Japan hold banners in front of their supporters in Kyoto on March 15, 2018, after a local district court ordered the state and the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to pay 110 million yen in damages to 110 of 174 plaintiffs. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
            Damages payment to Fukushima disaster evacuees

            Damages payment to Fukushima disaster evacuees

            Lawyers representing evacuees from the March 2011 nuclear crisis in Japan hold banners in front of their supporters in Kyoto on March 15, 2018, after a local district court ordered the state and the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to pay 110 million yen in damages to 110 of 174 plaintiffs. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
              Damages payment to Fukushima disaster evacuees

              Damages payment to Fukushima disaster evacuees

              Evacuees from the March 2011 nuclear crisis in Japan and their lawyers walk to the Kyoto District Court on March 15, 2018, before its ruling later in the day on a damages suit they filed against the state and the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
                Tepco ordered to pay damages to Fukushima evacuees

                Tepco ordered to pay damages to Fukushima evacuees

                Lawyers representing people who were forced to evacuate in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster hold banners showing the ruling of the Chiba District Court, near Tokyo, on Sept. 22, 2017. The court ordered Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. to pay damages to the plaintiffs but dismissed claims against the state. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
                  Fukushima evacuees seek damages

                  Fukushima evacuees seek damages

                  Evacuees of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and their lawyers head to the Chiba District Court, near Tokyo, on Sept. 22, 2017, to hear the ruling on a lawsuit under which they are demanding that the state and Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. pay a total of 2.8 billion yen in damages. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
                    Fukushima evacuees seek damages

                    Fukushima evacuees seek damages

                    Evacuees of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and their lawyers head to the Chiba District Court, near Tokyo, on Sept. 22, 2017, to hear the ruling on a lawsuit under which they are demanding that the state and Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. pay a total of 2.8 billion yen in damages. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
                      Japan gov't ordered to pay record damages in U.S. base noise suit

                      Japan gov't ordered to pay record damages in U.S. base noise suit

                      Photo taken Feb. 23, 2017, shows the bench of the Okinawa branch of the Naha District Court handing down a ruling on a damages suit filed by about 22,000 residents near the U.S. Kadena Air Base in Okinawa Prefecture against the Japanese government over noise from the military installation. The court ordered the government to pay about 30.2 billion yen ($267 million) but turned down a request from the residents to ban nighttime and early morning flights at the air base. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo