TOKYO, Japan – More than 60 people have committed suicides related to last year’s 9.0 quake and tsunami, the Japanese government says.The data comes as a family prepares to file the first lawsuit against the Tokyo Electric Power Co. over the suicide of a 58-year-old woman who set herself on fire in wake of...
TOKYO – Promising to infuse $12.5 billion capital, the Japanese government effectively took control of the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), a year after the utility's operations were hit following th (read more…)
TOKYO (Reuters) – Tokyo Electric Power Co, Japan's biggest utility and owner of the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant, will be taken over by the government after the country's trade minister on Wednesday approved a $12.5 billion capital injection. (more here…)
Japan ’s government took control of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501) , the center of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and agreed to provide 1 trillion yen ($12.5 billion), part of a bailout that is the nation’s largest since the rescue of the banking industry in the 1990s. (read more…)
Japan's Hokkaido Electric Power Co. closed the nation's last remaining nuclear power plant in operation on Saturday, leaving Japan without any nuclear-power source for this first time in over 40 years, according to reports. (more here…)
In this aerial photo taken April 22, 2012, three reactors, from left, No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, are seen at the Tomari Nuclear Power Plant, operated by Hokkaido Electric Power Co., in Tomari in Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido. (more…)
