TEPCO officials apologize to Fukushima evacuees

KORIYAMA, Japan - Masataka Shimizu (L front), president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., and other company officials apologize on April 22, 2011, to residents of the village of Kawauchi and town of Tomioka in Fukushima Prefecture, who are staying in Big Palette Fukushima, a convention hall in Koriyma, after being forced to leave their homes near the company's crisis-stricken Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. (Pool photo)

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