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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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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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(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.