{"id":2856,"date":"2017-09-29T12:16:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T11:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/?p=2856"},"modified":"2017-11-08T09:28:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T09:28:09","slug":"status-of-class-action-lawsuits-filed-by-evacuees-after-fukushima-daiichi-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/news\/2856","title":{"rendered":"Status of Class Action Lawsuits Filed by Evacuees after Fukushima Daiichi Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Class action lawsuits<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>So far, 28 class action lawsuits have been filed at 20 district courts and branches: Sapporo, Sendai, Fukushima (4 cases), Fukushima Koriyama Branch (2), Fukushima Iwaki Branch (3), Yamagata, Tokyo (3), Yokohama, Saitama, Chiba, Maebashi, Niigata, Nagoya, Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, Hiroshima, Okayama, Matsuyama and Fukuoka, involving about twelve thousand plaintiffs in total. Courts in Maebashi and Chiba have already issued rulings.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Outline of rulings<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The rulings and key issues in cases at the Maebashi and Chiba District Courts are summarized as follows:<strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2869 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en-renew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/\u5224\u6c7a\u5bfe\u7167\u8868-e1506683315636.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1147\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Schedule hereafter<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Rulings are expected at the Fukushima District Court on October 10, and at the Kyoto District Court, Tokyo District Court and the Iwaki Branch of the Fukushima District Court in March 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class action lawsuits So far, 28 class action lawsuits have been filed at 20 district courts and branches: Sapporo, Sendai, Fukushima (4 cases), Fukushima Koriyama Branch (2), Fukushima Iwaki Branch (3), Yamagata, Tokyo (3), Yokohama, Saitama, Chiba, Maebashi, Niigata, Nagoya, Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, Hiroshima, Okayama, Matsuyama and Fukuoka, involving about twelve thousand plaintiffs in total. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[345,71,530,23],"class_list":["post-2856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fukushima","category-news","tag-court","tag-government","tag-judicial-risk","tag-tepco"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2856"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}