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TEPCO

JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 30, 2017
Ex-Tepco execs plead innocent as 3/11 nuclear negligence trial kicks off
Three former Tokyo Electric execs go on trial over the triple core meltdown in Fukushima, claiming they could not foresee that giant tsunami would overwhelm the plant.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 23, 2017
New Tepco chief reaffirms Fukushima commitment, but underscored need for plant restarts
Dealing with the aftermath of nuclear disaster at Fukushima No.1 power plant remains the most important mission for Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., Tomoaki Kobayakawa, Tepco's new president, said Friday, but he also stressed the need to restart nuclear plants for the sake of continuing the...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 15, 2017
Toshiba unveils submersible video robot to probe reactor 3 at Fukushima No. 1 plant
Toshiba Corp. unveiled on Thursday a submersible robot to take live video of reactor 3 at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant to confirm whether fuel debris is sitting at the bottom of a pool of radioactive water inside.
JAPAN / Society
May 13, 2017
In Fukushima, a land where few return
The evacuation orders for most of the village of Iitate have been lifted. But where are the people?
CULTURE / Books
Apr 29, 2017
'Yoshida's Dilemma: One Man's Struggle to Avert Nuclear Catastrophe': But for him, Fukushima could have been much worse
But for this man and his team, the Fukushima disaster would likely have been much worse.
EDITORIALS
Apr 3, 2017
Lifting Fukushima evacuation orders
Government decisions alone will not return evacuees' lives to a state of normalcy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 3, 2017
Koike's plan for Tepco to remove utility poles in Tokyo an Olympian task
Making one of the world's biggest cities beautiful is a task beleaguered Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. is unlikely to relish.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 2, 2017
After Fukushima, battling Tepco and leukemia
Masaru Ikeda felt he had a duty to help at the No. 1 plant after 3/11. Now, in court, he is taking on the utility he says betrayed him.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Mar 25, 2017
Radiation brings fear, and kids let it all out
Children too young, one might think, to even know the word 'radiation' have picked it up and flung it with gleeful malice at disoriented new classmates who have enough to cope with already.

Longform

Professional cleaner Hirofumi Sakurai takes a moment to appreciate some photographs in a Gotanda apartment whose occupant died alone.
The last cleanup: Life and death in a lonely Japan