Seeking accountability: Yuichi Kaido (left), a lawyer representing Fukushima residents, speaking ahead of the Tokyo High Court ruling over the alleged negligence of three former executives. — AP
Tokyo: Tokyo’s High Court upheld the acquittal of three former executives from the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant, again clearing them of professional negligence over the 2011 disaster.
A court official said the trio’s appeal had been dismissed in the only criminal trial to arise from the world’s worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
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