A Japanese court on Wednesday ordered Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. to pay around 100 million yen ($676,000) in damages to a former town mayor who was forced to evacuate due to the 2011 crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in the town.Katsutaka Idogawa, the 79-year-old former head of the town of Futaba in Fukushima Prefecture, had sought around a total of 750 million yen from the state and the utility due to the upheaval to his life caused by the forced evacuation. The Tokyo District Court dismissed the claim against the government.While Presiding Judge Masahiko Abe re…READ FULL ARTICLE
