- "It can only be said that the possibility of a hereditary influence cannot be ruled out," the text states.

- There is another similar case pending in a Hiroshima court.

Nagasaki bombing. / Atlas

A Japanese court refuses to compensate the children of Nagasaki survivors

A Japanese court rejected on Monday the lawsuit filed by direct descendants of survivors of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, who claimed to receive compensation from the State due to hereditary genetic damage.

The District Court of Nagasaki - the Japanese city attacked with the atomic bomb on August 9, 1945 - ruled this Monday that the Japanese legal framework does not oblige the State to offer financial compensation to the so-called "hibakusha" (bomb survivors) second-generation.

The judges consider that it has not been possible to clearly demonstrate that the exposure to radiation suffered by the parents of the plaintiffs had an effect on their health.

"It can only be said that the possibility of a hereditary influence derived from exposure to radiation from the bomb cannot be ruled out," says the text of the resolution, collected by the local agency Kyodo.

The plaintiffs maintained throughout the proceedings that it was unfair to exclude them from the state's compensation system, citing medical research that pointed to possible hereditary effects of radiation. In this context, they claimed 100,000 yen (about 695 euros) per person as compensation from the Government.

This is the first ruling in Japan on such a claim by descendants of atomic bomb survivors, and another similar case is pending in a Hiroshima court.

The Japanese Executive currently offers various financial support schemes to people officially recognized as survivors of the atomic bombings, including full coverage of their medical expenses.

An estimated 40,000 people died at the time of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and the number would rise to more than 70,000 in the following months. In the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, some 400,000 people lost their lives in both cities in the years after the attacks carried out by the United States Air Force at the end of World War II.

There are currently some 118,935 survivors of the atomic bombings, with an average age of 84.5 years, according to official data from last August.

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