TEPCO president apologizes for underestimating Fukushima situation

Undated file photo shows Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose. He offered an apology at a meeting of the House of Councillors Budget Committee on March 8, 2016, over the recent revelation that the company underestimated the severity of the accident at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after the complex was struck by a devastating earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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