Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday it will comply with a government order and pay nearly ¥50 billion in provisional compensation to about 50,000 households forced to leave Japan’s 30-km evacuation zone around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
Tepco said it will pay ¥1 million to multiperson households and ¥750,000 to singles and will attempt to distribute the money before the Golden Week holidays from late April to early May.
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