Compensation for the people who lost everything is not exactly making them rich. If they had sold their property before the disaster, they could probably have had a similar amount of money. But then they would have to spend it on a home, as they are doing now.
I can understand that this migration due to contamination can be disruptive in the lives of everybody. People who do not own a home will still not own a home. And of course the uncontaminated land becomes more expensive because people are moving into it.
I am just glad that these folks' lives are going to go on.
A million dollars is no compensation for losing your livelihood, home, property, family, friends and also the inevitable radiation sicknesses like leukemia and cancer and the possible horrific birth defects of your children and grandchildren ... !
Just compensation for damages caused is nothing for which to be envious. These people may well have to spend every cent-----in medical care. And, the Japanese government knows it.
Well, I just found out that someone who lived in the areas where Japan's Fukushima disaster took place received a million dollars from the government compensation. Not only that, but evacuees also get free temporary public housing.
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0GV02S20140831?irpc=932
"Payments vary depending on the amount of radiation recorded in a particular area, a system that evacuees have complained appears arbitrary. A family of four in one part of an evacuated town might receive $1 million, while a similar family in a less contaminated part of the same evacuated town would get just over half of that amount, according to data from Japan's trade ministry."
That sounds amazing, I wish that I lived there during that time so that I could be rich..
