In a lawsuit filed against the government by residents of Joso City, Ibaraki Prefecture, who suffered extensive damage due to the flooding of the Kinugawa River seven years ago in the "Kanto and Tohoku Heavy Rains," the government found problems with river management. An appeal was filed against the 1st trial judgment ordering some of the plaintiffs to compensate for the damage.
On the other hand, some of the plaintiffs also appealed, and the case will be tried again at the Tokyo High Court.
In a trial in which 31 people, including residents of Joso City, Ibaraki Prefecture, who suffered large-scale flood damage due to the Kanto and Tohoku heavy rains in September 2015, demanded compensation from the government, last month, the Mito region The court acknowledged that there was a problem with the government's river management in one of the two places where water overflowed or collapsed, and ordered that nine people be compensated for more than 39 million yen.
Regarding this ruling, the country announced on the 4th that it had appealed to the Tokyo High Court as a dissatisfaction.
On the other hand, 20 plaintiffs appealed, including those who were not granted compensation and those who were dissatisfied with the judgment.
Kazumi Katakura, co-representative of the plaintiff group, who held a press conference on the 4th, said, "There was an opinion that compensation should be ordered even for districts where the national government was not found responsible in the first trial. I want to appeal that it is strange," he said.