Three Fukushima plant bosses to be indicted

Three former executives from the Fukushima nuclear plant will be charged with negligence, a Japanese judicial committee has ruled.

It paves the way for the first criminal trial over the disaster that followed the 2011 tsunami. The committee of independent citizens voted to indict Tsunehisa Katsumata, 75, who was chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Co. at the time of the crisis, along with then-vice presidents Sakae Muto, 65, and Ichiro Takeguro, 69. Dozens of elderly people died during and after the evacuation.