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Japan radio to pay lost salary to ex-anchor
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A Japanese court has ordered public broadcaster NHK to pay 5.1 million yen (US$41,500) in damages for firing a French news announcer who fled Japan during the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.
The Tokyo District Court on Monday voided NHK’s decision to end the contract of Emmanuelle Bodin, who had worked at NHK as an announcer on radio programs before her evacuation, and ordered the station to pay the salary Bodin would have received had she been allowed to renew her contract for the following fiscal year.
“The plaintiff should not be strongly blamed even if she fled the country putting her safety before work,” the court said in its ruling.
It noted that the embassies of France and other countries in Tokyo advised their nationals to evacuate following the crisis.
A quake-sparked tsunami swamped cooling systems and triggered reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima plant, northeast of Tokyo, prompting many foreign residents and visitors as well as some Japanese residents to flee the capital or even the country.
Bodin left Japan on March 15 shortly after the meltdown but later informed NHK she could resume working from March 30. NHK, however, had already ended her contract, the ruling said.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Bodin, who had sought more than 15.7 million yen, said that she felt her “honor is restored” after the three-year trial.
“It is a big victory,” she said. “Finally, David won against Goliath.”
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