Tokyo court clears three former Tokyo Electric Power executives of negligence over the 2011 Fukushima disaster
Sakae Muto , former vice president of Tokyo Electric Power Company, Tsunehisa Katsumata , former chairman of TEPCO and Ichiro Takekuro , former vice president arrive at the District Court in Tokyo on September 19, 2019.
Outside the courtroom, dozens of people held a rally, including some who had travelled from the Fukushima region to hear the verdict.The three former executives were accused of professional negligence resulting in death and injury by failing to act on information about the risks from a major tsunami, but they argued the data available to them at the time was unreliable.
But in 2015, a judicial review panel composed of ordinary citizens ruled that the trio should face trial, compelling prosecutors to proceed. They argued the executives were presented data warning a tsunami exceeding 10 metres could trigger power loss and a major disaster at the plant. They said that the information available to them before the disaster was not reliable and that they thought officials in the firm responsible for nuclear safety had taken appropriate measures.
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