For those of you reading the title and not the article: where the government is found not liable, damages are then fully on TEPCO to pay (rather than just leaving plaintiffs out to dry).
That is not something I personally get particularly pitchforky about. If anything TEPCO is still getting off too easy, but this is certainly not a ruling in their favor.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://japantoday.com/category/national/urgent-japan's-top-court-rules-state-not-liable-for-fukushima-disaster) reduced by 83%. (I’m a bot) ***** > Japan's top court on Friday dismissed claims that the government should pay damages in cases involving around 3,700 people whose lives were seriously affected by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, absolving the state of responsibility for the crisis that led to mass evacuations.
> The decision by the Supreme Court's Second Petty Bench was the first for the top court and covered four lawsuits filed in Fukushima, Gunma, Chiba and Ehime prefectures.
> The top court finalized the utility's liability in March for the first time.
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Raise your hand if that shocks you.
edit: uh… no one? no? ok…
> the Supreme Court’s Second Petty Bench
Those petty backbenchers strike again.
For those of you reading the title and not the article: where the government is found not liable, damages are then fully on TEPCO to pay (rather than just leaving plaintiffs out to dry).
That is not something I personally get particularly pitchforky about. If anything TEPCO is still getting off too easy, but this is certainly not a ruling in their favor.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://japantoday.com/category/national/urgent-japan's-top-court-rules-state-not-liable-for-fukushima-disaster) reduced by 83%. (I’m a bot)
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> Japan's top court on Friday dismissed claims that the government should pay damages in cases involving around 3,700 people whose lives were seriously affected by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, absolving the state of responsibility for the crisis that led to mass evacuations.
> The decision by the Supreme Court's Second Petty Bench was the first for the top court and covered four lawsuits filed in Fukushima, Gunma, Chiba and Ehime prefectures.
> The top court finalized the utility's liability in March for the first time.
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It wasn’t the strongest earthquake in 8 centuries? How anyone could have predicted that?
China rules South China Sea belongs to China lol
I investigated and I wasn’t the one who farted.