Coordinating with TEPCO Kawamura's resignation. Will the replacement be vacant for the time being?

It was found that the adjustment was being made in the direction that TEPCO Chairman Takashi Kawamura will step down.

The chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Company, which has been virtually nationalized after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, had previously been appointed by top executives of major corporations, but will be vacant for the time being.

On the other hand, the chairman of the board of directors, which Mr. Kawamura was concurrently serving as, was the chairman of the major trading company Mitsui & Co., Ltd. It is being advanced.