TEPCO ordered to pay damages over evacuee's suicide

TEPCO ordered to pay damages over evacuee's suicide

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Mikio Watanabe (C) heads for the Fukushima District Court in the northeastern Japan city of Fukushima with a picture of his late wife Hamako on Aug. 26, 2014. The court ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. to pay 49 million yen in damages over the suicide of Hamako, who was forced to evacuate from her home by the 2011 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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