{"id":352201,"date":"2022-05-27T14:17:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T18:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=352201"},"modified":"2022-06-21T23:04:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T03:04:06","slug":"cancer-patients-seek-damages-from-fukushima-operator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/he\/cancer-patients-seek-damages-from-fukushima-operator\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer patients seek damages from Fukushima operator"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">It&#8217;s just the beginning&#8230; <\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<p>A Tokyo court began hearings on Thursday in a landmark lawsuit filed by six cancer patients against the operator of the ill-fated Fukushima nuclear power plant. The plaintiffs were children at the time of the 2011 disaster \u2013 when the plant was crippled in a devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami \u2013 and they developed thyroid cancer later in life.<\/p>\n<p>The group is seeking a total of 616 million yen ($4.9 million) in damages from the Fukushima operator, the Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO). The plaintiffs believe the plant\u2019s operator is responsible for their illnesses and the impact they\u2019ve had on their lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of the treatments, I could not attend university, or continue my studies for my future job, or go to a concert. I had to give up everything,\u201d one of the plaintiffs, identified only as a woman in her 20s, told the court. \u201cI want to regain my healthy body, but that\u2019s impossible no matter how hard I wish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/556197-fukushima-cancer-patients-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rael.maitreya\/posts\/10160428532964345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:\u00a0 It&#8217;s just the beginning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":352206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}