ABSTRACT
This chapter examines whether diverse victims of the nuclear plant disaster have been sufficiently compensated and assisted. According to the Reconstruction Agency, as of 2015, four years after the accident, over 110,000 Fukushima residents remained displaced from their homes. The chapter discusses the Nuclear Damage Compensation Act as well as the Committee for Nuclear Damage Compensation. It has been ordinal disaster reconstruction assistance that relieved those who were not included under the umbrella of nuclear disaster compensation. In the midst of this, nuclear disaster victims who face an uncertain future are left alone without compensation and assistance. The Great East Japan Earthquake was a complex disaster involving an earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster, and it is characteristically difficult to categorize damages and victims. The Nuclear Damage Compensation Act was mainly applied to a limited geographic area, mostly the government-designated evacuation area.
