TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's top court has rejected an appeal seeking criminal charges against three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings over their alleged failure to prevent the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
The decision, dated Wednesday, upholds lower court rulings that the executives could not have foreseen the massive tsunami that caused the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, acquitting Ichiro Takekuro, 78, and Sakae Muto, 74, both former vice presidents of the company.
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