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Japan's Fuji Electric workers detained in China

Photo taken on June 25, 2026, shows a plant run by a company of Japan's Fuji Electric Co. group in Dalian, China. Two Japanese Fuji Electric employees were detained in May in the northeastern Chinese city, possibly over attempts to take rare earth-related products overseas, according to sources familiar with the matter.

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Japan's Fuji Electric workers detained in China

Photo taken on June 25, 2026, shows a plant run by a company of Japan's Fuji Electric Co. group in Dalian, China. Two Japanese Fuji Electric employees were detained in May in the northeastern Chinese city, possibly over attempts to take rare earth-related products overseas, according to sources familiar with the matter.

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Japan's Fuji Electric workers detained in China

Photo taken on June 25, 2026, shows a plant run by a company of Japan's Fuji Electric Co. group in Dalian, China. Two Japanese Fuji Electric employees were detained in May in the northeastern Chinese city, possibly over attempts to take rare earth-related products overseas, according to sources familiar with the matter.

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Japan's Fuji Electric workers detained in China

Photo taken on June 25, 2026, shows a plant run by a company of Japan's Fuji Electric Co. group in Dalian, China. Two Japanese Fuji Electric employees were detained in May in the northeastern Chinese city, possibly over attempts to take rare earth-related products overseas, according to sources familiar with the matter.

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Taiwan: Typhoon Danas Batters Southern Region, Leaving Widespread Damage 3

Typhoon Danas made landfall near Chiayi's Budai Township around 11:40 p.m. on Sunday, July 6, bringing gusty winds and heavy rainfall to the southern region. Typhoon Danas weakened to a tropical storm after its eye departed Taiwan early Monday.

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Japan carmakers, TEPCO to spread charging technology for EVs

TOKYO, Japan - Senior officials of four Japanese automakers and Tokyo Electric Power Co. pose for photos at an inaugural general meeting of ''CHAdeMO,'' an association to promote the use of rapid chargers for electric vehicles, in Tokyo on March 15, 2010. The association was formed by Nissan Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp., Mitsubishi Motors Corp. and Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. and TEPCO.

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Aeon to set up electric car battery chargers at shopping malls

TOKYO, Japan - The supermarket operator Aeon Co. plans to set up battery chargers for the vehicles at its shopping malls. The photo shows Mitsubishi Motors Corp.'s electric car MiEV (R), which will be launched in September next year, and Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd.'s electric car R1e (L), which will also be released next year.

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Kansai Electric President Fuji to step down in June

OSAKA, Japan - Kansai Electric Power Co. Chairman Yoshihisa Akiyama (C), flanked by President Yosaku Fuji (L) and Vice President Shosuke Mori (R), speaks at a press conference in Osaka on March 25. Akiyama said that Fujii will step down in June to take responsibility for the 2005 fatal but non-radioactive accident at a nuclear power plant. Mori will succeed Fuji as president of Japan's second largest electric utility.

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KEPCO head apologizes before Diet for nuke-plant accident

TOKYO, Japan - Kansai Electric Power Co. President Yosaku Fuji bows his head while apologizing before a House of Representatives panel Aug. 31 for Japan's deadliest accident at a nuclear power plant, which took place in Fukui Prefecture earlier this month. Five workers died and six others were injured in the accident at the Mihama nuclear power plant.

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Kansai Electric to halt all reactors for safety checks

OSAKA, Japan - Kansai Electric Power Co. President Yosaku Fuji (R) speaks at a press conference in Osaka on Aug. 13. He said that the company began scaling down the output of three nuclear reactors, the first step of its plan to suspend the operations of all its eight running nuclear reactors to check the safety of their pipes.

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(5)4 dead, 7 injured in nuke plant accident

MATSUOKA, Japan - Kansai Electric Power Co. President Yosaku Fuji answers questions from reporters after visiting a hospital in Fukui Prefecture on Aug. 10 to see people injured in a fatal steam leakage accident which occurred at the plant the previous day. The accident killed four workers and injured seven others.

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(4)4 dead, 7 injured in nuke plant steam leak accident

OSAKA, Japan - Kansai Electric Power Co. President Yosaku Fuji bows in apology at the outset of a press conference at the company's head office in Osaka's Kita Ward on Aug. 9. Earlier in the day, four works died and seven others were injured after high-temperature steam leaked from one of the reactors at the company's Mihama Nuclear Plant in Fukui Prefecture.

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KEPCO given formal nod to pioneer MOX fuel use in Japan

FUKUI, Japan - Fukui Gov. Issei Nishikawa (L) meets with Yosaku Fuji, president of Kansai Electric Power Co., at the prefecture government offices in Fukui on March 20 to convey a decision to follow the state and the Takahama municipal government in allowing the power company to use mixed uranium-plutonium oxide (MOX) fuel at its nuclear plant in Takahama in the prefecture.

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Fuji to take over presidency of Kansai Electric Power

OSAKA, Japan - Yosaku Fuji, vice president of Kansai Electric Power Co., meets the press at the company's head office in Osaka's Kita Ward on March 26. The company announced Fuji will replace Hiroshi Ishikawa as president in June. Ishikawa, whose health is poor, is expected to become an adviser.

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(5)4 dead, 7 injured in nuke plant accident

MATSUOKA, Japan - Kansai Electric Power Co. President Yosaku Fuji answers questions from reporters after visiting a hospital in Fukui Prefecture on Aug. 10 to see people injured in a fatal steam leakage accident which occurred at the plant the previous day. The accident killed four workers and injured seven others. (Kyodo)

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Kansai Electric to halt all reactors for safety checks

OSAKA, Japan - Kansai Electric Power Co. President Yosaku Fuji (R) speaks at a press conference in Osaka on Aug. 13. He said that the company began scaling down the output of three nuclear reactors, the first step of its plan to suspend the operations of all its eight running nuclear reactors to check the safety of their pipes. (Kyodo)

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KEPCO head apologizes before Diet for nuke-plant accident

TOKYO, Japan - Kansai Electric Power Co. President Yosaku Fuji bows his head while apologizing before a House of Representatives panel Aug. 31 for Japan's deadliest accident at a nuclear power plant, which took place in Fukui Prefecture earlier this month. Five workers died and six others were injured in the accident at the Mihama nuclear power plant. (Kyodo)

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Aeon to set up electric car battery chargers at shopping malls

TOKYO, Japan - The supermarket operator Aeon Co. plans to set up battery chargers for the vehicles at its shopping malls. The photo shows Mitsubishi Motors Corp.'s electric car MiEV (R), which will be launched in September next year, and Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd.'s electric car R1e (L), which will also be released next year. (Kyodo)

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Kansai Electric President Fuji to step down in June

OSAKA, Japan - Kansai Electric Power Co. Chairman Yoshihisa Akiyama (C), flanked by President Yosaku Fuji (L) and Vice President Shosuke Mori (R), speaks at a press conference in Osaka on March 25. Akiyama said that Fujii will step down in June to take responsibility for the 2005 fatal but non-radioactive accident at a nuclear power plant. Mori will succeed Fuji as president of Japan's second largest electric utility. (Kyodo)

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Japan carmakers, TEPCO to spread charging technology for EVs

TOKYO, Japan - Senior officials of four Japanese automakers and Tokyo Electric Power Co. pose for photos at an inaugural general meeting of ''CHAdeMO,'' an association to promote the use of rapid chargers for electric vehicles, in Tokyo on March 15, 2010. The association was formed by Nissan Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp., Mitsubishi Motors Corp. and Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. and TEPCO. (Kyodo)

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(4)4 dead, 7 injured in nuke plant steam leak accident

OSAKA, Japan - Kansai Electric Power Co. President Yosaku Fuji bows in apology at the outset of a press conference at the company's head office in Osaka's Kita Ward on Aug. 9. Earlier in the day, four works died and seven others were injured after high-temperature steam leaked from one of the reactors at the company's Mihama Nuclear Plant in Fukui Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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KEPCO given formal nod to pioneer MOX fuel use in Japan

FUKUI, Japan - Fukui Gov. Issei Nishikawa (L) meets with Yosaku Fuji, president of Kansai Electric Power Co., at the prefecture government offices in Fukui on March 20 to convey a decision to follow the state and the Takahama municipal government in allowing the power company to use mixed uranium-plutonium oxide (MOX) fuel at its nuclear plant in Takahama in the prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Fuji to take over presidency of Kansai Electric Power

OSAKA, Japan - Yosaku Fuji, vice president of Kansai Electric Power Co., meets the press at the company's head office in Osaka's Kita Ward on March 26. The company announced Fuji will replace Hiroshi Ishikawa as president in June. Ishikawa, whose health is poor, is expected to become an adviser.