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Tokyo Electric Power ex-executives to face trial over handling of Fukushima disaster

( July 31, 2015, 06:42 GMT | Insight) -- Three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power, including ex-chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, will face trial over their handling of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster after an inquest prosecution committee decided for the second time that the case is...Three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power, including ex-chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, will face trial over their handling of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster after an inquest prosecution committee decided for the second time that the case is “appropriate for prosecution,” the Nikkei newspaper reported. If an inquest committee decides that a case is appropriate for prosecution, and prosecutors choose not to pursue the case, the committee conducts a second inquest. If the case is then determined to be appropriate for prosecution by a super majority of more than eight members out of 11, the case is pursued, according to the Japan Federation of Bar Associations....

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