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The families of two workers who died of mesothelioma will each receive 17 million yen as part of a settlement agreement in a claim against the former Japanese National Railways (JNR), which is no longer in operation. The workers’ families claimed they developed mesothelioma as a result of inhaling asbestos on their job with the railway.

The story, reported by The Mainichi Daily News, says the settlement was mediated in Yokohama District Court. Two companies that now operate in place of JNR – Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency, and the Japan Freight Railway Co. (JR Freight) – will pay the settlement.

The News estimates about 100,000 former JNR workers may have been exposed to asbestos on the job.

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