Ex-Fukushima Daiichi plant chief Yoshida dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in November 2011 shows Masao Yoshida, head of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex, as the crippled plant is shown to journalists for the first time since the start of the nuclear crisis in March 2011. Yoshida died of esophageal cancer at a Tokyo hospital on July 9, 2013, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. He was 58. After the Fukushima complex was hit by tsunami waves following a huge earthquake, Yoshida took command of the situation in an isolated building on the plant's premises.

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