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Japan's two nuclear safety bodies to be scrapped

TOKYO, Japan - Nuclear Safety Commission Chairman Haruki Madarame speaks during the last meeting of the panel in Tokyo on Sept. 18, 2012. The NSC and the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, Japan's key government entities that have been in charge of nuclear safety regulations, are set to be scrapped prior to the launch of a new regulatory authority.

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Nuclear safety panel chief

TOKYO, Japan - Haruki Madarame, chairman of the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on June 17, 2011.

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Nuclear safety panel chief

TOKYO, Japan - Haruki Madarame, chairman of the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on June 17, 2011.

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Japan gov't, nuclear commission at odds

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) attends a meeting of a House of Representatives ad hoc committee on post-disaster restoration at the Diet building in Tokyo on May 23, 2011. On the front left is Haruki Madarame, chairman of the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan. The government and the commission have been at odds over why the injection of seawater into the troubled No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was temporarily suspended a day after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Nagoya bourse introduces computerized trading

NAGOYA, Japan - Hiroshi Fujita (R), president of the Nagoya Stock Exchange, and Hiroya Madarame, managing director of Fujitsu Ltd., prepare to cut the tape at a ceremony marking the introduction of computerized trading at the bourse Sept. 4. It is the third Japanese bourse to introduce computerized stock trading after the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Osaka Securities Exchange, abandoning conventional floor trading.

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Nuclear safety panel chief

TOKYO, Japan - Haruki Madarame, chairman of the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on June 17, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Nuclear safety panel chief

TOKYO, Japan - Haruki Madarame, chairman of the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on June 17, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Japan gov't, nuclear commission at odds

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) attends a meeting of a House of Representatives ad hoc committee on post-disaster restoration at the Diet building in Tokyo on May 23, 2011. On the front left is Haruki Madarame, chairman of the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan. The government and the commission have been at odds over why the injection of seawater into the troubled No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was temporarily suspended a day after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Nagoya bourse introduces computerized trading

NAGOYA, Japan - Hiroshi Fujita (R), president of the Nagoya Stock Exchange, and Hiroya Madarame, managing director of Fujitsu Ltd., prepare to cut the tape at a ceremony marking the introduction of computerized trading at the bourse Sept. 4. It is the third Japanese bourse to introduce computerized stock trading after the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Osaka Securities Exchange, abandoning conventional floor trading.