KAMINOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture Chugoku Electric Power Co. held key talks with Kaminoseki Mayor Tetsuo Nishi here Aug. 2 to explain its hopes of building an interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in his town.
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The government on May 16 approved the requests of seven major utilities to raise monthly electricity bills for standard households by 2,078 yen ($15.30) to 5,323 yen starting on June 1.
For the second time, the government ordered Fujitsu Japan Ltd. to suspend its problem-plagued service that allows people to obtain their residence certificates using their My Number identification cards at convenience stores.
Toshiba Corp. accepted a buyout offer from a group led by private equity firm Japan Industrial Partners on March 23, bringing it a step closer to going private for the first time since listing in 1949.