Fishermen lodge protest over TEPCO pollution

Fishermen lodge protest over TEPCO pollution

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata (L, front) bows in apology after receiving a statement of protest from Ikuhiro Hattori (R, front), head of the National Federation of Fisheries Cooperatives Associations, at the utility's headquarters in Tokyo on April 6, 2011. The federation said fishermen are angry over the company's release into the sea of radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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