Reports on burglaries in homes in the no-entry zone from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant shot up nearly 30 times in the first nine months of this year from a year earlier, police say.
Yasokazu Shirado, who suffered losses at his rental video shop and karaoke parlor as well as his home in Tomioka, a town eight kilometers from the plant, said that Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant operator, should compensate victims for their losses.
"(The burglaries) occurred primarily because of the accident at the nuclear plant," said Shirado, 54.
Shirado estimated his losses for all the stolen goods and radioactive contamination of his shops after the windows were broken at more than 80 million yen ($1,040,000).
But TEPCO is refusing to meet victims' demands, saying that it is the thieves who are responsible.
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