The Tokyo High Court on Friday overturned the earlier district court ruling against the former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) to pay compensation of 13 trillion yen ($90 billion) for their failure to prevent the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, according to local media.

The High Court’s ruling centered around TEPCO management’s failure to implement countermeasures following the government’s long-term earthquake assessment in 2002, which predicted a possible tsunami of up to 15.6 meters. The court ruled in favor of the executives, finding that the massive tsunami of up to 15 meters that caused the disaster was not foreseeable. Presiding Judge Toshikazu Kino emphasized that the government’s assessment did not provide a sufficient basis for the mana

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