(VOVworld) - Tokyo Electric Power Company has been ordered to pay 27 million yen in compensation to the bereaved family of a male evacuee who committed suicide after being displaced due to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Japanese monks prayed for tsunami victims at a memorial in Suma, Fukushima prefecture on March 11 (Photo: AFP/ VNA)

Presiding Judge Naoyuki Shiomi of the Fukushima District Court ruled on Tuesday that the main reason Kiichi Isozaki, 67, from Namie, near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, killed himself was “stress related to the nuclear accident.” It was the second time a court in Japan has deemed that the Fukushima accident was responsible for an evacuee's suicide. The judge concluded that the prolonged evacuation and economic insecurity about his future added to his anxiety and triggered depression.

In the first compensation ruling, made by the same court last August, the utility was ordered to pay about 49 million yen to the family of an evacuee from Kawamata who killed herself in July 2011.