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[Breaking News]TEPCO to reboot 1st reactor since Fukushima disaster

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 25 Kyodo - Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. President Tomoaki Kobayakawa speaks at a press conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 24, 2025. TEPCO plans to restart the No. 6 unit at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear complex in Niigata Prefecture on Jan. 20, the utility's first reactor reboot since the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex. (Kyodo)

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1st anniversary of Jan. 1 quake in central Japan

Utility poles remain tilted in Uchinada, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Dec. 22, 2024, ahead of the first anniversary on Jan. 1 of a powerful earthquake that hit the Noto Peninsula area, triggering soil liquefaction in the central Japan town.

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Tokyo consumer inflation accelerates in May

STORY: Tokyo consumer inflation accelerates in May SHOOTING TIME: recent footage DATELINE: June 3, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:39 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of street views in Tokyo STORYLINE: Core inflation in Tokyo continued to rise in May as utility costs expanded, government data showed. The Tokyo core consumer price index, which excludes volatile fresh food but includes fuel costs, rose 1.9 percent in May from a year earlier, accelerating from a 1.6 percent rise in April, according to the internal affairs ministry. Seen as a leading indicator of nationwide trends in Japan, the Tokyo data released on Friday stood below the Bank of Japan's 2-percent target. The acceleration was largely pushed up by utility costs related to renewable energy promotion, as electricity bills increased for the first time in 16 months by rising 13.1 percent year on year. Meanwhile, prices of food excluding fresh items rose 3.2 percent, unchanged from the previous month. Xinhua News Agency correspondent

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NAMIBIA-WINDHOEK-BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM

(231214) -- WINDHOEK, Dec. 14, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Shandong Electrical Engineering & Equipment Group representative Jin Bei (C) speaks at the signing ceremony of the utility-scale Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in Windhoek, Namibia, Dec. 13, 2023. Namibia's power utility, NamPower, on Wednesday signed an agreement with two Chinese companies for the development of the country's first 54MW/54MWH utility-scale BESS. TO GO WITH "First utility-scale battery energy storage system to be developed in Namibia" (Xinhua/Chen Cheng)

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DR Congo announces measures to stabilize its national currency

STORY: DR Congo announces measures to stabilize national currency DATELINE: July 19, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:19 LOCATION: Kinshasa CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Kinshasa 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (French): NICOLAS KAZADI, DRC Minister of Finance 3. various of Kinshasa STORYLINE: The Minister of Finance of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Nicolas Kazadi announced at a press briefing in Kinshasa late Monday urgent measures taken by the government to stabilize the Congolese franc, the currency of the country, on the foreign exchange market. According to the minister, the value of the Congolese franc against the U.S. dollar continued to slide recently. The measures to stabilize the Congolese franc include the intervention of the central bank in the foreign exchange market, and the increase in the utility of the Congolese franc. SOUNDBITE 1 (French): NICOLAS KAZADI, DRC minister of Finance "What are the measures that we are going to take? First, the Central Bank, which disposes of important reserves,

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Kyushu Electric stresses need for successful reactor restart

FUKUOKA, Japan - Michiaki Uriu, president of Kyushu Electric Power Co., delivers a New Year address to company officials at the utility's head office in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 5, 2015. He stressed that Kyushu Electric must be successful in reactivating its Sendai nuclear power plant in Kagoshima Prefecture, possibly in March, to become the first of the idled nuclear plants to restart operations in Japan after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Toyota revives Land Cruiser 70

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture on Aug. 25, 2014, shows the Land Cruiser 70 van of Toyota Motor Corp. Toyota said the same day it has reintroduced the heavy-duty sport utility vehicle in Japan for the first time after it ended domestic sales of the model in 2004 due to stricter regulations for diesel engine exhaust gas emissions.

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Toyota revives Land Cruiser 70

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture on Aug. 25, 2014, shows the pickup truck version of the Land Cruiser 70 sport utility vehicle of Toyota Motor Corp. Toyota said the same day it has reintroduced the heavy-duty SUV in Japan for the first time after it ended domestic sales of the model in 2004 due to stricter regulations for diesel engine exhaust gas emissions.

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TEPCO logs group net profit

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose gives a press conference on the utility's earnings in the first half of fiscal 2013 at the company's head office in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2013. TEPCO reported a group net profit of 616.20 billion yen for the April-September period, swinging into the black on a half-year basis for the first time since the nuclear disaster at its Fukushima Daiichi complex in 2011.

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Remodeled GL-class SUVs

OSAKA, Japan - Mercedes-Benz Japan Co. President Kintaro Ueno stands beside a fully remodeled GL-class sport utility vehicle in Osaka on April 22, 2013. The automaker fully remodeled the GL-class for the first time in six and a half years.

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Toyota in Russian Far East

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov (L) views the assembly process for Land Cruiser Prado sport utility vehicles at a plant of Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp. in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on Jan. 25, 2013. Toyota said it will commence full-fledged production of SUVs at the plant in February.

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Toyota in Russian Far East

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov (far R) views the assembly process for Land Cruiser Prado sport utility vehicles at a plant of Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp. in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on Jan. 25, 2013. Toyota said it will commence full-fledged production of SUVs at the plant in February.

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Kansai Electric mulling electricity rate hikes

OSAKA, Japan - Kansai Electric Power Co. President Makoto Yagi is pictured during a press conference at the utility's head office in the city of Osaka on Oct. 29, 2012. Yagi said Kansai Electric is considering hiking electricity charges for all of its customers, increasing the likelihood it will become the first utility after Tokyo Electric Power Co. to resort to such action to address business conditions following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis.

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Kansai Electric mulling electricity rate hikes

OSAKA, Japan - Kansai Electric Power Co. President Makoto Yagi is pictured during a press conference at the utility's head office in the city of Osaka on Oct. 29, 2012. Yagi said Kansai Electric is considering hiking electricity charges for all of its customers, increasing the likelihood it will become the first utility after Tokyo Electric Power Co. to resort to such action to address business conditions following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis.

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Mitsubishi's plug-in hybrid SUV

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Mitsubishi Motors Corp.'s new Outlander, the world's first plug-in hybrid sport utility vehicle. The automaker said on Sept. 5, 2012, it will unveil the vehicle during the Paris motor show starting Sept. 27, 2012.

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TEPCO chairman, president survey Fukushima plant

TOMIOKA, Japan - Kazuhiko Shimokobe (R), chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Co., and TEPCO President Naomi Hirose (C) visit the utility's Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant in the town of Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 4, 2012. They visited the plant as well as the utility's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex for the first time since assuming their posts in late June. (Pool photo)

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Toyota produces SUVs in Egypt

CAIRO, Egypt - Toyota Motor Corp. unveils its Fortuner sport utility vehicle during a ceremony at a plant in Cairo on April 9, 2012. Toyota Motor has started manufacturing the Fortuner in Egypt, marking its first production there of automobiles with the aim of boosting local sales.

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Toyota produces SUVs in Egypt

CAIRO, Egypt - Toyota Motor Corp. unveils its Fortuner sport utility vehicle during a ceremony at a plant in Cairo on April 9, 2012. Toyota Motor has started manufacturing the Fortuner in Egypt, marking its first production there of automobiles with the aim of boosting local sales.

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Antinuclear power rally

TOKYO, Japan - Antinuclear power demonstrators march outside the head office of Tokyo Electric Power Co. in the capital on March 11, 2012, the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis at the utility's Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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Antinuclear power rally

TOKYO, Japan - Antinuclear power demonstrators march outside the head office of Tokyo Electric Power Co. in the capital on March 11, 2012, the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis at the utility's Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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TEPCO on anniversary

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Toshio Nishizawa (projected in a monitor) speaks during a meeting of employees after a moment of silence at the utility's head office in Tokyo on March 11, 2012, the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear crisis at the company's Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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Tesla's Model X

LOS ANGELES, United States - Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Motors Inc., unveils the Model X, the company's first electric sport-utility vehicle, near Los Angeles on Feb. 9, 2012.

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Mitsubishi SUV Outlander

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Mitsubishi Motors Corp.'s Outlander sports utility vehicle. The automaker announced Feb. 9, 2012, that it will launch a plug-in hybrid model of the Outlander within fiscal 2012 ending in March 2013. The model is expected to become the first commercial plug-in hybrid SUV, according to the automaker.

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Tohoku Electric launches mega-solar power plant

AOMORI, Japan - Tohoku Electric Power Co. launches commercial operation of a mega-solar power plant in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, on Dec. 20, 2011. The utility's first commercial solar power plant with a capacity of 1,500 kilowatts can produce about 1.6 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually to cover 500 households. It consists of some 10,000 solar cell panels installed on a 50,000-square-meter site.

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Tohoku Electric launches mega-solar power plant

AOMORI, Japan - Tohoku Electric Power Co. launches commercial operation of a mega-solar power plant in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, on Dec. 20, 2011. The utility's first commercial solar power plant with a capacity of 1,500 kilowatts can produce about 1.6 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually to cover 500 households. It consists of some 10,000 solar cell panels installed on a 50,000-square-meter site.

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Oi nuclear power plant

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken in July 2011 shows the Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture. Kansai Electric Power Co. aims to resume operation of the plant's No. 3 reactor (2nd from L), making it the first of the utility's seven nuclear reactors currently shut down to resume operating, sources close to the matter said Sept. 15, 2011.

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1st meeting of panel to check TEPCO's assets

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Shimokobe (L), a lawyer heading a panel of experts to check the financial status of Tokyo Electric Power Co., speaks at the first meeting of the panel at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 16, 2011. Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) told the panel to compile a report by September. The panel was launched to streamline TEPCO's operations to lessen the burden on taxpayers from the utility's enormous compensation payments over the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Goverment, TEPCO joint press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Goshi Hosono (4th from front, holding a mike), Prime Minister Naoto Kan's special adviser, speaks during the first joint press conference by the central government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. on the crisis at the utility's nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, in Tokyo on April 25, 2011. The government is aiming to release information on how Japan is dealing with the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in a more unified manner.

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Goverment, TEPCO joint press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Goshi Hosono (L), special adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan, listens to a question from a reporter during the first joint press conference by the central government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. on the crisis at the utility's nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, in Tokyo on April 25, 2011. The government is aiming to release information on how Japan is dealing with the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in a more unified manner.

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Kansai Electric starts mega solar system operation

SAKAI, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 5, 2010, shows solar panels belonging to a mega solar power generation plant of Kansai Electric Power Co. located in the Sakai city waterfront area in Osaka Prefecture. The company, which started operation of the plant the same day, became the first power utility in Japan to launch commercial operations of such a large-scale solar power plant.

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Kansai Electric starts mega solar system operation

SAKAI, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 5, 2010, shows solar panels belonging to a mega solar power generation plant of Kansai Electric Power Co. located in the Sakai city waterfront area in Osaka Prefecture. The company, which started operation of the plant the same day, became the first power utility in Japan to launch commercial operations of such a large-scale solar power plant.

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Toyota launches Lexus RX, 1st SUV under Lexus brand in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the Lexus RX350 sport utility vehicle launched by Toyota Motor Corp. in Japan on Jan. 19 -- the first non-sedan model under the luxury Lexus brand. Japan's largest automaker also said it will release a gasoline-electric hybrid version of the model, the RX450h SUV, in the domestic market in April.

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Tokyo Electric falls into red for 1st time in 28 years

TOKYO, Japan - Tsunehisa Katsumata, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on April 30. The utility said it fell into the red in fiscal 2007 for the first time in 28 years, with a group net loss of 150.11 billion yen.

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Tokyo Electric to fall into red in FY 2007

TOKYO, Japan - Tsunehisa Katsumata, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., briefs reporters on the company's full-year earnings estimate for fiscal 2007 in Tokyo on Oct. 31. Japan's biggest utility is expected to fall into the red in fiscal 2007 for the first time in 28 years, affected by the shutdown of its key nuclear power reactor and rising fuel costs.

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Nissan debuts British-made midsize crossover SUV Dualis in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Nissan Motor Co. Chief Executive Officer Toshiyuki Shiga stands beside his company's midsize crossover sport utility vehicle Dualis at a press conference in Tokyo on May 23. The Dualis, manufactured at Nissan's Sunderland plant in Britain, is based on the Qashqai that made its debut first in Europe in February 2007 and is about the size of a compact hatchback, thus featuring the ''agility and sportiness expected of a hatchback,'' Nissan said. The vehicle, equipped with a 2000 cc engine, is priced from 1,953,000 yen to 2,430,750 yen.

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Suzuki's small SX4 SUV developed with Fiat debuts in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Suzuki Motor Corp. Chairman Osamu Suzuki (L) and President Hiroshi Tsuda pose beside the SX4, a compact sport-utility vehicle the company developed with Italy's Fiat S.p.A. at a press conference in Tokyo on July 4. The new SUV, which was marketed in Japan on the day, first went on sale in Europe in March. The four-wheel-drive 1.5XG model with a 1.5-liter engine under the new product line will sell for 1,858,500 yen.

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Mitsubishi Motors releases new vehicle for 1st time in 30 months

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. President Osamu Masuko stands by the company's new sport utility vehicle Outlander during its presentation in Tokyo on Oct. 17. The four-wheel drive vehicle is MMC's first new product in about two and a half years.

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Mitsubishi Heavy wins order from French utility

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. said Aug. 24 it has won an order from Electricite de France SA for six replacement steam generators (a similar one shown in file photo) used in nuclear power generation. This is the first time for a Japanese company to win an order to supply core equipment for nuclear power reactors from the French utility.

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Toyota launches pickup plant in Thailand

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. said on Aug. 25 it has begun producing and selling a new pickup truck in Thailand, the first step in the automaker's plan to build a global supply network. The new pickup, the Hilux VIGO (photo), is the first of five newly developed models to be produced in four countries -- Thailand, Indonesia, South Africa and Argentina -- in an investment worth about 150 billion yen. The five models -- three pickup trucks, a minivan and a sport-utility vehicle -- will be sold in more than 140 countries outside Japan and North America.

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(1)1 dead, 23 hurt in train-car crash in Aichi

INAZAWA, Japan - A utility pole hangs in front of a limited express train of Nagoya Railroad Co. (Meitetsu) near a railway crossing in Inazawa, Aichi Prefecture, on Sept. 26 after the train collided with a car (L). The first two cars of the train derailed and the passenger car was severely damaged in the collision, which left the car's driver dead and injured 23 people.

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Mitsubishi Motors launches new SUV

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Sonebe (L), president of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC), and MMC Executive Vice President Rolf Eckrodt unveil the Airtrek, the company's new sports utility vehicle, on June 20 in Tokyo. The Airtrek, MMC's first new model in seven months, is available with a 2.4-liter or 2.0-liter engine and will go on sale in North America and Europe next year. It is priced between 1.70 million yen and 2.30 million yen.

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New York Int'l Auto Show opens to press

NEW YORK, United States - The 2001 Toyota Highlander car-based, sport-utility vehicle is one of some 1,000 new models from the world's leading automakers on display at the 2000 New York International Auto Show, which opened to the press April 19 ahead of its nine-day run starting April 22. Fifteen new models will be unveiled for the first time at the show, which will also feature more than 30 futuristic concept cars.

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NE China's 400-MWh power storage utility put into operation

STORY: NE China's 400-MWh power storage utility put into operation DATELINE: Oct. 31, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:52 LOCATION: DALIAN, China CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Dalian Concurrent Energy Storage Power Station 2. various of the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) 3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LI XIANFENG, Deputy director of the DICP 4. various of wind and photovoltaic power generating units STORYLINE: The first phase of a power storage utility with a capacity of 400 MWh was put into operation in northeast China's Dalian on Sunday. According to the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the capacity of the Dalian Concurrent Energy Storage Power Station was designed to meet the electricity demand of some 200,000 residents per day and will be doubled to 800 MWh in the future. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LI XIANFENG, Deputy director of the DICP "The energy storage technology, in our understanding, is to build a 'bank' for electricity, whe

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Evergrande begins mass production of electric SUV

Photo taken in Beijing on Sept. 16, 2022, shows the Hengchi 5 sport-utility vehicle manufactured by Chinese real estate developer Evergrande Group's car-making arm. The group said the same day the carmaker has started mass production of the model, its first electric vehicle, at its Tianjin plant.

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Evergrande begins mass production of electric SUV

Photo taken in Beijing on Sept. 16, 2022, shows the Hengchi 5 sport-utility vehicle manufactured by Chinese real estate developer Evergrande Group's car-making arm. The group said the same day the carmaker has started mass production of the model, its first electric vehicle, at its Tianjin plant.

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NAMIBIA-OMARURU-SOLAR POWER PLANT

(220624) -- OMARURU (NAMIBIA), June 24, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A person stands in front of photovoltaic panels at a photovoltaic (PV) power plant in Omaruru, the Erongo region, Namibia, on June 24, 2022. Namibian state-owned utility, NamPower on Friday inaugurated the utility's first fully owned 20MW photovoltaic (PV) power plant at an event in Omaruru in the Erongo region. (Photo by Musa C Kaseke/Xinhua)

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NAMIBIA-OMARURU-SOLAR POWER PLANT

(220624) -- OMARURU (NAMIBIA), June 24, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People attend an event for the inauguration of a photovoltaic (PV) power plant in Omaruru, the Erongo region, Namibia, on June 24, 2022. Namibian state-owned utility, NamPower on Friday inaugurated the utility's first fully owned 20MW photovoltaic (PV) power plant at an event in Omaruru in the Erongo region. (Photo by Musa C Kaseke/Xinhua)

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Subaru unveils its first EV to be sold globally

Subaru Corp. President and CEO Tomomi Nakamura stands next to the Solterra sport utility vehicle, the automaker's first all-electric vehicle to be sold globally, during an unveiling event in Tokyo on Nov. 11, 2021.

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Chicago Auto Show

Nissan Motor Co. exhibits its new all-electric Ariya sport utility vehicle at the Chicago Auto Show on July 14, 2021, the first face-to-face show since the coronavirus pandemic.

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Chicago Auto Show

An executive of Stellantis N.V.'s sports utility vehicle Jeep brand speaks to the press at the Chicago Auto Show on July 14, 2021, the first face-to-face show since the coronavirus pandemic.