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Emmanuelle Bodin, 55, who worked as a translator and did radio work for NHK for 20 years, says she confirmed with her employer that returning home on the advice of the French embassy would not cause a disruption, Fuji TV reported. On March 13, the French Embassy in Tokyo advised its citizens to leave the Tokyo metropolitan area.Speaking at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan on Tuesday, Bodin said she arranged for another person to substitute for her and cleared the trip with her superiors, Fuji TV reported. She said she left Japan with her two daughters on March 15, planning to return on March 30, but on March 22, she received a letter from NHK, dismissing her for abandoning her job. Bodin this week filed a lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court demanding NHK invalidate the dismissal and pay unpaid wages. Her lawyers argue it was unlawful of NHK to dismiss her in light of the French government's evacuation order issued in the wake of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.An NHK spokesperson was quoted by Fuji TV as saying the company saw no legal obstacle to terminating her contract. © Japan Today ...

The Fourth District Appellate Court ruled on Monday that Katie Daly's sentence be reduced to probation rather than the 3-year prison term imposed by Champaign County Associate Judge Richard Klaus.The appellate court sent the case back to Champaign County for a different judge to set conditions of probation and fines."To me, this means now that the Daly family — the entire family, Katie's parents, her aunts and uncles, Annie's parents, her cousins — can now be confident they can mourn Annie's loss as a family unit," said attorney Mark Lipton, who represented Katie Daly.The ruling is the latest in a series of events that began on Oct. 6, 2013, when Katie Daly got behind the wheel of a John Deere Gator to drive her cousin, Annie Daly, 19, and three others back home after a bonfire and tipped it on wet gravel on a county road not far from the Dalys' Philo homes.Despite first aid administered at the crash scene by Katie Daly, a nurse, Annie Daly died of internal injuries about four hours after the crash.A month later, the state charged Daly with felony aggravated driving under the influence. In late March, she attempted to plead guilty to that crime for a sentence of probation. But Klaus indicated he would not accept that plea agreement, negotiated by Lipton and State's Attorney Julia Rietz.Ten days later, Daly and the lawyers returned to Klaus' courtroom, where Daly pleaded guilty to the lesser offense of reckless homicide but agreed to let Klaus sentence her. Rietz agreed to recommend probation and six months of electronic home detention and dismiss the aggravated DUI charge."The intent was not to minimize the seriousness of the DUI aspect but more to focus on Katie's rehabilitative potential," Rietz said on Monday evening.On May 14, in a courtroom packed with family and friends of both Daly women, Lipton called nine witnesses, including coworkers and patients of Katie Daly, to testify about her good qualities. He presented more than 200 letters of support. And Annie Daly's mother ...