Kan calls for reform of Japan's power industry

Kan calls for reform of Japan's power industry

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan (L) attends the first meeting of a newly launched panel on the promotion of renewable energy that includes intellectuals and celebrities at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 12, 2011. During the meeting, Kan called for ''fundamental reform'' of Japan's electric power industry amid the nuclear crisis at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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