Tokyo Electric Power Co. and three other power companies held shareholders' meetings on Tuesday and six more on Wednesday. The shareholders' meetings were overshadowed by the crisis at Tepco's Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
At some meetings, many shareholders presented motions calling for withdrawal from nuclear power generation. Their motions were voted down because institutional shareholders did not support them.
What happened at the shareholders' meetings indicates that the Fukushima nuclear crisis is leading more and more grass-roots people to take a serious view of the risks inherent in nuclear power generation.