Rolling blackout

KAMAKURA, Japan - A police officer regulates traffic on a street without traffic lights in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, on March 18, 2011, during a rolling blackout introduced by Tokyo Electric Power Co. amid an electricity supply shortage following the automatic shutdown of its nuclear power plants after the March 11 killer quake and tsunami.

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