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Yoshimitsu Kobayashi headed the Japan Association of Corporate Executives for four years through 2019. | KYODO
Kyodo Apr 28, 2021
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. (Tepco) said Wednesday it has appointed Yoshimitsu Kobayashi, former head of a major business lobby, as its new chairman, in a bid to reconstruct the struggling utility tasked with the decommissioning of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
Kobayashi, 74, headed the Japan Association of Corporate Executives for four years through 2019 and now serves as chairman of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corp. He will assume the post after a general shareholders’ meeting scheduled in late June.
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Kyodo Apr 22, 2021
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. (Tepco) is considering tapping Yoshimitsu Kobayashi, who headed a major business lobby, to become the utility’s chairman as it continues with decommissioning the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, sources familiar with the matter said Thursday.
Tepco is said to be making final arrangements with the government to name Kobayashi, former head of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives and now chairman of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corp., to the post, according to the sources. As a major shareholder, the government has a say in Tepco’s operations.