About 150 people in Japan, including fishery workers in Fukushima Prefecture, filed a lawsuit on September 8 to halt the release of nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the ocean.

In the suit lodged against the Japanese government and plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the plaintiffs claimed that the ocean discharge violates their fishing rights and threatens the rights of consumers to live peacefully.

It is the first lawsuit in Japan calling for the discharge of nuclear-contaminated water into the sea to be stopped.