{"id":464541,"date":"2022-01-28T11:11:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T05:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=464541"},"modified":"2022-01-28T12:14:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T06:44:26","slug":"6-cancer-patients-sue-utility-over-fukushima-radiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/6-cancer-patients-sue-utility-over-fukushima-radiation\/","title":{"rendered":"6 cancer patients sue utility over Fukushima radiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six people who were children living in Fukushima at the time of the 2011 nuclear disaster and have since developed thyroid cancer filed a lawsuit on Thursday demanding a utility pay compensation for their illnesses, which they say were triggered by massive radiation spewed from the Fukushima nuclear plant.<\/p>\n<p>The people, now aged 17-27 and living in and outside of Fukushima, demand the Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings pay a total of 616 million yen ($5.4 million) in compensation.<\/p>\n<p>One of the plaintiffs, identified only as a woman in her 20s, said she has had to prioritise her health over her career and has seen prejudice against thyroid cancer patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six people who were children living in Fukushima at the time of the 2011 nuclear disaster and have since developed thyroid cancer filed a lawsuit on Thursday demanding a utility pay compensation for their illnesses, which they say were triggered by massive radiation spewed from the Fukushima nuclear plant. The people, now aged 17-27 and living in and outside of Fukushima, demand the Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings pay a total of 616 million yen ($5.4 million) in compensation. One of the plaintiffs, identified only as a woman in her 20s, said she has had to prioritise her health over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,247,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}