It is beyond our understanding why TEPCO continues with the payment when it is effectively bankrupt. That money should be spent to compensate victims.

Completely correct. TEPCO has its priorities a@@ backwards and has for decades.

Agreed jerseyboy !!!! , , , , ,How is it that the J government has protected TEPCO and done so little to help and compensate the victims of the disaster???????????????????---- - EQUALLY- WHY? has no one been charged for negligence ????................ I mean, International Nuclear Energy inspectors, plus some courageous J journalists and professionals drew attention to defects in the FUKUSHIMA plant for years . . No one did anything. .

and tepco continues to pay for its follies and bonuses for its employees with our tax money and by raising our electricity rates...

Seems it was a bit of a legal bribe, but the agreement was set before the disaster and tepco along with all other entities should honour their agreements.

Bribery or not !

¥200 million but it was agreed prior to the nuclear disaster and will be the final payment. TEPCO will need to send its spend fuel to the plant for reprocessing.

zichi -- disagree, and this is why TEPCO/Japan is over-whelmed by the crisis. Any crisis manager will tell you that the first thing you do in a crisis is re-think everything -- start with a clean sheet of paper. And that every resource you can find should be devoted towards solving the short-term crisis, because there is no long-term if you don't do that quickly enough. So prior agreements don't mean a thing if they don't help solve the immediate crisis. But not with TEPCO/Japan. There the ingrained thinking of maintaining appearances/order, the sacred Wa, takes over. Which is why the company and the country are in the position they are in regarding Fukushima.