Final report

Criticism, doubts greet new Diet panel on nuclear...
Kiyoshi Kurokawa, center, former chairman of the Diet investigation committee, and other former members attend a session of the Lower House committee on nuclear issues on April 8. (The Asahi Shimbun)
April 09, 2013
The Lower House established a committee to monitor nuclear power administration, but the overtly pro-nuclear panel was immediately criticized as long overdue and doubts were...
TEPCO restrictions on coverage of nuclear crisis...
TEPCO's nameplate at its head office in Tokyo (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
July 30, 2012
Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s plans to impose tight restrictions on reporters covering the release of videos of its meetings in the early stages of the Fukushima nuclear crisis...
GOVERNMENT PROBE: Nuclear accident panel urges...
Yotaro Hatamura, right, chairman of the government investigation panel on the Fukushima nuclear disaster, submits a final report to Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on July 23. (Kazuhiro Nagashima)
July 24, 2012
A complete change in thinking about disaster prevention is needed among electric power companies, regulatory authorities and other experts to prevent a recurrence of the...
GOVERNMENT PROBE: Reactor cooling botched at...
The fuel storage pool, foreground, and the lid of the containment vessel are seen at the No. 4 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on July 23. (Eiji Hori)
July 24, 2012
One of the striking points about the final report of the government's investigation panel on last year's nuclear disaster is the comparison of the crisis response at the...
GOVERNMENT PROBE: Many Fukushima hospital patients...
Beds that were used to evacuate patients during last year's nuclear disaster remain at Futaba Hospital in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 23. (Eiji Hori)
July 24, 2012
A day after the Tohoku earthquake hit, the Futaba Hospital director ordered 209 patients and all doctors and nurses to flee to safety as the disaster started unfolding at the...
UPDATE: Government panel blasts lack of 'safety...
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, left, accompanied by Yotaro Hatamura, chief of the government investigation committee on the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, speaks after receiving the final report of the committee on July 23. (Kazuhiro Nagashima)
July 23, 2012
The government panel looking into last year's accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant pointed to a lack of a "safety culture" at both Tokyo Electric Power Co. and...
FINAL REPORT (1) : TEPCO, NISA's dilly-dallying...
Kiyoshi Kurokawa, chairman of the Diet investigation panel, right, and other panel members prepare to talk to reporters at a news conference on July 5. (Shingo Kuzutani)
July 06, 2012
Tokyo Electric Power Co. and nuclear regulatory authorities “intentionally” delayed taking measures against earthquakes and tsunami, causing a "man-made disaster" at the...
FINAL REPORT (2) : Concern for people's lives was...
The Diet investigation panel's report and related materials that were submitted to Kenji Hirata, the Upper House speaker, on July 5. The report contains 641 pages. (Satoru Semba)
July 06, 2012
Concern for people's lives seemed to be the last thing on the minds of officials at Tokyo Electric Power Co. or the central government as they scrambled to contain the nuclear...
FINAL REPORT (3) : 80% of evacuees did not know...
Residents in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, leave an evacuation center and are forced to flee the town on March 12, 2011. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
July 06, 2012
More than eight out of 10 people in the evacuation zone around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant had no idea there was anything wrong on March 11, 2011, according to the...
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