TEPCO asks gov't to help in paying nuclear disaster damages

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Masataka Shimizu (L) hands a letter of request to industry minister Banri Kaieda (R) at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 10, 2011. TEPCO asked the government to help it pay the enormous costs expected in compensating victims of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant while promising to streamline the company's operations to the utmost extent. (Kyodo)

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