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Japan court holds ex-TEPCO execs liable for Fukushima crisis

This aerial photo shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, north of Tokyo, on March 17, 2022. A Tokyo court on Wednesday, July 13, 2022. ordered four former executives at the utility behind the tsunami wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant to pay 13 trillion yen ($94 billion) to the company, holding them liable for the 2011 meltdown crisis. (Shohei Miyano/Kyodo News via AP) A group of TEPCO shareholders who filed a suit in 2012 demanding that former executives pay billions of money in damages to the company walk to the Tokyo District Court in Tokyo, Wednesday, July 13, 2022. The Tokyo court on Wednesday ordered four former executives at the utility behind the tsunami wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant to pay 13 trillion yen ($94 billion) to the company, holding them liable for the 2011 meltdown crisis. (Shohei Miyano/Kyodo News via AP)