Japan’s prosecutors officially began investigating Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and its former top executives on criminal charges today in relation to the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima following last year's March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
After the arrest of a yakuza boss for his alleged role in supplying workers to TEPCO’s Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Plant, we are learning the details of how Japan’s nuclear industry relied on organized crime.
In the first arrest in relation to the yakuza's role in Japan's nuclear industry since last March's devastating earthquake and tsunami, police in Fukushima charged a senior yakuza leader for illegally dispatching workers to the reconstruction at the TEPCO-run Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Power Plant.
TOKYO -- The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which had been a bastion of cronyism and corruption even before the triple meltdown at its Fukushima Daichii nuclear power following the March 11 earthquake, has today begun the process of being nationalized by the Japanese government.
"TEPCO's involvement with anti-social forces and their inability to filter them out of the work-place is a national security issue," a Japanese Senator with the Liberal Democratic Party said on background.
Tens of thousands of migrant workers are cleaning the place up
Before the tsunami arrived, workers say the quake left its aging Unit 1 reactor crippled
Jake Adelstein and Stephanie Nakajima report on the Japanese utility after Fukushima
A Tokyo Electric shareholders meeting turns rowdy with anti-nuclear protests
The bill would be able to handle claims up to $125 billion
Shimizu apologized from 'the bottom of my heart' for the Fukushima crisis
TEPCO officials confirmed today what had been suspected for months
Japanese regulators want to know who bought a 10% stake in the Fukushima operator
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