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Top 2 Kyushu Electric executives to resign

FUKUOKA, Japan - Kyushu Electric Power Co. Executive Vice President Michiaki Uriu speaks during a press conference in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 12, 2012. The utility said Uriu will become president, succeeding Toshio Manabe who will resign along with Chairman Shingo Matsuo on April 1, 2012, over a scandal involving the company's attempt to manipulate public opinion regarding nuclear power generation.

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Kyushu Electric managers to stay on

FUKUOKA, Japan - Kyushu Electric Power Co. President Toshio Manabe speaks during a press conference in Fukuoka on Oct. 14, 2011. The utility announced a three-month, 100-percent salary cut for Manabe and Chairman Shingo Matsuo over a scandal involving the company manipulating public opinion in favor of restarting reactors at its Genkai nuclear power plant in Saga Prefecture. The two top executives will remain in their posts.

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Explosives at Fukuoka business leaders' houses

FUKUOKA, Japan - Police officers investigate in the garage belonging to Kyushu Electric Power Co. Chairman Shingo Matsuo in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on March 5, 2011. Part of the garage was found destroyed possibly by an explosive. An object resembling a hand grenade was found the same day at the entrance of the residence of Saibu Gas Co. President Yuji Tanaka in the same city.

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Explosives at Fukuoka business leaders' houses

FUKUOKA, Japan - Members of a police anti-explosive unit remove an object resembling a hand grenade found at the entrance of the residence of Saibu Gas Co. President Yuji Tanaka in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on March 5, 2011. The same day, part of the garage belonging to Kyushu Electric Power Co. Chairman Shingo Matsuo in the same city was found destroyed, possibly by an explosive.

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Genkai town, Saga Pref. accepts MOX reactor plan

SAGA, Japan - Tsukasa Terada (R), mayor of the town of Genkai, presents to Shingo Matsuo, president of Kyushu Electric Power Co., documents stating the town's acceptance of the power company's plan to begin electric generation using uranium-and-plutonium mixed oxide fuel, or MOX, at the No. 3 reactor of its Genkai nuclear power plant at the municipal government in Saga Prefecture on March 26.

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Genkai town, Saga Pref. accepts MOX reactor plan

SAGA, Japan - Tsukasa Terada (R), mayor of the town of Genkai, presents to Shingo Matsuo, president of Kyushu Electric Power Co., documents stating the town's acceptance of the power company's plan to begin electric generation using uranium-and-plutonium mixed oxide fuel, or MOX, at the No. 3 reactor of its Genkai nuclear power plant at the municipal government in Saga Prefecture on March 26. (Kyodo)

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Kyushu Electric managers to stay on

FUKUOKA, Japan - Kyushu Electric Power Co. President Toshio Manabe speaks during a press conference in Fukuoka on Oct. 14, 2011. The utility announced a three-month, 100-percent salary cut for Manabe and Chairman Shingo Matsuo over a scandal involving the company manipulating public opinion in favor of restarting reactors at its Genkai nuclear power plant in Saga Prefecture. The two top executives will remain in their posts. (Kyodo)

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Explosives at Fukuoka business leaders' houses

FUKUOKA, Japan - Police officers investigate in the garage belonging to Kyushu Electric Power Co. Chairman Shingo Matsuo in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on March 5, 2011. Part of the garage was found destroyed possibly by an explosive. An object resembling a hand grenade was found the same day at the entrance of the residence of Saibu Gas Co. President Yuji Tanaka in the same city. (Kyodo)

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Explosives at Fukuoka business leaders' houses

FUKUOKA, Japan - Members of a police anti-explosive unit remove an object resembling a hand grenade found at the entrance of the residence of Saibu Gas Co. President Yuji Tanaka in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on March 5, 2011. The same day, part of the garage belonging to Kyushu Electric Power Co. Chairman Shingo Matsuo in the same city was found destroyed, possibly by an explosive. (Kyodo)

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Top 2 Kyushu Electric executives to resign

FUKUOKA, Japan - Kyushu Electric Power Co. Executive Vice President Michiaki Uriu speaks during a press conference in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 12, 2012. The utility said Uriu will become president, succeeding Toshio Manabe who will resign along with Chairman Shingo Matsuo on April 1, 2012, over a scandal involving the company's attempt to manipulate public opinion regarding nuclear power generation. (Kyodo)