A Japanese court awarded 15.2 million yen ($142,000) in damages on Tuesday to the family of a 102-year-old man who killed himself in the face of an order to flee from his home amid the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.The Fukushima District Court ordered Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., the operator of the crippled nuclear power plant, to pay compensation, recognizing a causal relationship between the suicide of Fumio Okubo and the nuclear disaster.Three family members of Okubo had sought a total of about 60 million yen from the utility known as Tepco. The man, who had never lived o…READ FULL ARTICLE
