Diet OKs bills to free up Japan's retail electricity market

Diet OKs bills to free up Japan's retail electricity market

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's industry minister Toshimitsu Motegi bows in the upper house chamber in Tokyo on June 11, 2014, after parliament enacted legislation to liberalize the household electricity market, dominated by regional monopolies for the past 60 years.

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