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October 21st, 2015 
Awake Goy 
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Co-Founder, Legacy Bio-Naturals
October 20, 2015
Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has revealed that one of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) workers has been diagnosed with radiation – related cancer that is being attributed to exposure to Fukushima during clean – up efforts.
For the past 4 and ½ years since the meltdown at Fukushima, an estimated 44,000 workers have been on the site and exposed to highly toxic levels of radiation.
The man’s name is being withheld from the press; however reports state that he is 41 years old and from Kitakyushu.
The worker was assigned to the Daiichi Fukushima plant and worked near reactors 3 and 4 from 2012 to 2013. He is the first worker to receive compensation from TEPCO for contracting cancer while installing covers over the damaged reactors.
In 2014, the man was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow, which has rapidly progressed.
Satoshi Togawa, spokesperson for TEPCO, said : “We are aware that a case of a cooperating company’s worker who worked at [Fukushima Daiichi] was recognized for worker’s compensation through reports.”
Togawa continued: “As applying for worker’s compensation is done by each employee or each employer, and recognizing this is handled by a labor standards supervision office, we are not in a position to make a comment. We offer our sincere sympathy for the cooperating company’s worker.”
According to TEPCO’s website , they have kept “firmly in mind that the safety of the workers and employees who are involved in the decommissioning operation is the highest priority” and claim they are committed to “addressing the improvement of their work environment to increase efficiency through the reduction of exposure via decontamination, etc., and the reduction of their workload by simplifying protective equipment, and ensuring the thorough provision of facilities to support their physical and mental wellbeing.”
Investors and speculators are concerned that this is just the beginning of a huge wave of lawsuits brought on by employees due to failing health directly linked to the radiation leaks.
According to regional authorities, figures showed that children diagnosed with cancer jumped from 28 in 2012 to 44 in 2013; and the incidents of thyroid cancer were evident in 25 of those children.
Other reports stated that “of the 75 cases registered, 33 were confirmed to be cancer. Doctors at Fukushima Medical University have so far tested 254,000 of the 375,000 of children living in the area.”
This is not the first compensation case.
Last year the Fukushima District Court (FDC) ordered TEPCO to pay restitution damages to the family of an “evacuee who committed suicide after the disaster in March 2011.”
TEPCO paid an estimated $472,000 to the family of Hamako Watanabe who burned herself alive after being forced to evacuate her home.
Watanabe came back to her residence and doused herself with gasoline, committing suicide because of a deep depression that set in after losing “her family home, job, friends and ties with her local community.”
FDC Judge Naoyuki Shiomi said that TEPCO “should have been able to anticipate that displaced residents forced to evacuate the area because of the triple-meltdowns at the plant would likely suffer from stress and that this could lead to cases of suicide.”
An unnamed Cabinet Office (CO) official stated that since 2011, an estimated 56 suicides can be directly attributed to Fukushima.
The CO has installed a suicide prevention hotline and dispatched counselors to aid residents of temporary housing in Fukushima, [however] such measures have proved to be insufficient.”
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