Ten years after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a civil trial blaming the former management of TEPCO is approaching.
Witness cross-examination began on the 26th in a trial in which shareholders are seeking compensation, and earthquake and tsunami experts testified that "before the accident, TEPCO should take measures."
In a trial in which more than 50 TEPCO shareholders are asking five former executives to compensate the company for "an accident occurred due to neglect of safety measures," a witness cross-examination was conducted at the Tokyo District Court from the 26th. At the beginning, Yukinobu Okamura, an expert on earthquakes and tsunamis and an honorary researcher at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, appeared in court.
Mr. Okamura considers the risk of tsunami from the latest research on the Sadakan earthquake that occurred in the Heian period more than 1100 years ago at the national examination of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2009, two years before the accident. He pointed out that it should be done, "I thought it was necessary to calculate the height of the tsunami and take measures."
After that, when an employee of TEPCO came to visit us, he was told that he would like to investigate the tsunami deposits near the nuclear power plant, but he said, "It's no use doing it now. I took measures against the tsunami first. It ’s better, ”he said.
In this trial, five former executives, including former chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, will be questioned in May and July.