Kepco slammed by shareholders over culture that led to gift scandal
The scandal could have been prevented if the firm had disclosed management information fairly, said a lawyer representing Osaka Municipal Government.
Kansai Electric to sue former execs for damages over bribery scandal
Outside lawyers have concluded that five former executives inflicted some ¥1.3 billion in damages to the company.
Fukui kicks off ticket-based mask sales as 'Abenomask' plan flops
Fukui Prefecture began selling masks via numbered tickets Friday to ensure all 320,000 households get an equal opportunity to buy them amid the national shortage caused by the coronavirus, it said. Under Fukui's program, the first of its kind in Japan, people will eventually be ...
Fukui Prefecture to provide face mask coupons to all residents
The Fukui Prefectural Government said Sunday it would distribute coupons granting the right to purchase face masks to all households in the prefecture, in response to shortages amid the COVID-19 pandemic. With the coupons, residents will be entitled to buy two 50-mask packs at drugstores ...
A closer look at Kansai Electric and its gift-giving scandal
Earlier this month, Kansai Electric Power Co. concluded that scores of its employees had received cash and gifts worth hundreds of millions of yen from an influential politician in a Fukui Prefecture town where the utility operates a nuclear power plant. The revelations by ...
Japan’s first commercial light-water nuclear reactor started operations in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, on March 14, 1970. Fifty years later, those involved look back on the project with mixed feelings. In that era, nuclear power was touted as a key future energy resource. But now, following the ...
Kansai Electric ordered to improve operations over bribery scandal
The government on Monday ordered Kansai Electric Power Co. to improve its business operations following a bribery scandal involving the former deputy mayor of a town hosting one of its nuclear plants. Taizo Takahashi, head of the Natural Resources and Energy Agency, summoned Kansai Electric ...
Japan Atomic accused of altering data about fault under Tsuruga reactor
The Nuclear Regulation Authority on Friday accused Japan Atomic Power Co. of modifying the original geological data used to determine whether a fault under the Tsuruga power plant's controversial No. 2 reactor is active or not. The nuclear watchdog is screening the safety of the ...
Japanese turn to crowdfunding to pay for public-interest lawsuits
When a Nagoya-based citizens group calling for the decommissioning of an over 40-year-old nuclear power plant kicked off a crowdfunding campaign in October to cover costs for ongoing litigation, it successfully raised about ¥3.7 million, 1.5 times the target amount, in about two months. The ...
Kepco to halt two nuclear reactors after missing counterterrorism deadline
Kansai Electric Power Co. said Wednesday it would suspend operations at two nuclear reactors after missing a deadline set by the industry regulator to build counterterrorism facilities. Under stricter rules implemented after the 2011 Fukushima disaster, utilities are now required to build emergency off-site control ...
Japan begins second removal of spent MOX fuel from nuclear reactor
Operations have begun to remove a rare type of spent fuel made of plutonium-uranium mixed oxide from a nuclear reactor in central Japan, operator Kansai Electric Power Co. said Monday. The removal of MOX fuel rods from the No. 3 reactor at the Takahama nuclear ...
