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Japanese Government Acknowledges First Fukushima Radiation Death

Thousands of people died as a result of the earthquake and tsunami that hit in 2011, but this is the first death that the government says was caused by radiation. He was a Fukushima worker.

For the first time since a devastating earthquake and tsunami triggered meltdowns at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant in 2011, the Japanese government says a former plant worker has died as a result of radiation exposure.

The country's health and labor ministry.

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