Mayor of Saga town that hosts nuclear plant admits he got cash from firm tied to Kepco scandal
Shintaro Wakiyama said that the money was received days after he was elected, in July 2018, from a then executive of Shiohama Industry Corp.
Nuclear watchdog OKs decommissioning plan for two reactors at Kepco's Oi plant in Fukui
The nation's nuclear watchdog approved a plan Wednesday to decommission two reactors in Fukui Prefecture, a move their operator decided to take rather than shoulder the high cost of implementing safety upgrades. Kansai Electric Power Co. will spend ¥118.7 billion to dismantle the Nos. 1 ...
News outlets take time to connect the dots in Kepco gift scandal
In September, media reported that 20 executives of Kansai Electric Power Co. (Kepco) had, for a decade or so, received almost ¥320 million worth of cash and gifts from Eiji Moriyama, the former deputy mayor of Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, who died in March at ...
Kepco 'donated' at least ¥4.3 billion to nuclear plant host town Takahama since 1970s: sources
A town in Fukui Prefecture hosting a Kansai Electric Power Co. nuclear power plant received at least ¥4.3 billion in "donations" since around 1970 from the company, currently at the heart of a gift scandal involving its late deputy mayor, sources familiar with the ...
109 Fukui officials received money in Kansai Electric gift scandal
A total of 109 current and former Fukui prefectural officials received money and other gifts, some worth up to ¥200,000, from a former Takahama deputy mayor who is at the heart of a gift scandal involving Kansai Electric Power Co., an investigative committee said ...
71-year-old woman suspected of murdering three older family members due to stress of caregiving
A 71-year-old woman in central Japan suspected of murdering her husband has told investigators she strangled her in-laws as well, local police said Monday, pointing to the stress of being the sole caregiver in the family as a possible motive. Masako Kishimoto was arrested Sunday ...
Hidden gold and 'murky' payoffs threaten Japan's nuclear revival
A payoff scandal has struck Japan's nuclear world, threatening to delay the restart of idled reactors in what's becoming the industry's biggest crisis since the Fukushima meltdowns of 2011. The issue, which emerged at the end of last month, centers around how an influential municipal ...
Kepco promoted three execs despite letters detailing shady gifts from deputy mayor
President Shigeki Iwane read the accusatory letters but went ahead with the promotions anyway because discipline had already been meted out, Kansai Electric said.
A former senior Kansai Electric Power Co. official said Thursday he received gift coupons in the 1990s from a former deputy mayor of a town hosting one of the company's nuclear power plants, though he was in charge of a plant outside the town. Eiji ...
Pressure mounts for Kepco to be more transparent over gift-giving scandal
Calls are growing in political circles — both locally and nationally — for Kansai Electric Power Co. to reveal the full extent of the graft related to the gift giving scandal and one of its nuclear plants that forced its chairman and other executives ...
Kepco Chairman Makoto Yagi quits post over gift scandal linked to Fukui nuclear plant
Kansai Electric Power Chairman Makoto Yagi resigned Wednesday after criticism over his receipt of gifts from a former official of a town that hosts one of the firm’s nuclear plants.
After criticism, Kepco weighs rules on executive punishment amid gift scandal
The move follows criticism of the leniency in the way six were reprimanded for receiving gifts from a former town official.
