Interpressnews: Tepco chief has apparently committed suicide

[flamingdem]

* Not sure of this news source

http://www.interpressnews.ge/en/world/26901-tepcos-chief-has-committed-suicide--japanese-media.html

A 43-year veteran of TEPCO, Shimizu became the company's chief in 2008. Since then, the utility's share price has tumbled by 67%, much of that in the wake of the disaster in Fukushima.

According to Bloomberg, "that’s the worst performance of any of the 88 members of the MSCI World Utilities Index and of the 17 companies in the Topix Electric Power & Gas Index."

Shimizu has not been seen in public since March 13, but the company says he's taken charge in the response to the crisis within TEPCO HQ.

Local media are now reporting that Shimizu became ill on March 16 and therefore couldn't work for days, according to AFP (via The Straits Times). He reportedly,
took a week off from the joint task force that had been set up by the government and the company, the Mainichi Shimbun daily said, citing company officials. "He was not at the task force but (was) still collecting information at the headquarters (in Tokyo), giving instructions," a Tepco spokesman was quoted saying by the Mainichi daily.

[buddysmellgood]

1. He could have had the decency to do it by bailing water.

[flamingdem]

2. !! nt

[n2doc]

9. +1 n/t

[glinda]

3. I don't see where he has killed himself.

[Myrina]

4. Yeah - what's up with that headline?

I realize it's the accurate link headline too, but reading it & finding nothing at all about 'suicide' makes ya :tinfoilhat:


:shrug:

[flamingdem]

6. I have no idea what this source is and if it's only a rumor nt

[flamingdem]

5. TEPCO's Chief has committed suicide – Japanese media

That is the article's headline

[mimitabby]

7. this is really bizarre

the headline doesn't match the story.
where's the body?

[GliderGuider]

8. Google news has a number of sources reporting it as a rumour

Executive vanishes during nuclear fallout

IN NORMAL times, Masataka Shimizu lives in The Tower, a luxury high-rise in Tokyo. But he hasn't been there for more than two weeks, according to a uniformed doorman.

Mr Shimizu, president of the Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, which owns the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, just 240 kilometres from the capital, is the most invisible - and most reviled - chief executive in Japan.

Amid rumours he had fled the country, checked into hospital or even committed suicide, company officials said their boss suffered a ''small illness'' due to overwork after the earthquake on March 11.

Vanishing in times of crisis is something of a tradition among Japan's industrial and political elite. During Toyota's recall debacle last year, the car maker's chief also went AWOL. Mr Shimizu last appeared in public on March 13, two days after the earthquake.

[txlibdem]

11. Darn. I was going to recommend that the banksters and wall street fraudsters do the same

It's the right thing to do for destroying the world economy, ruining millions of lives, probably caused many deaths due to lack of medical care at the very least.

All you wall street types: this should be your plan for your future -- if you had an ounce of humanity left in you.

But instead you roll in tax payer cash with your multi-million dollar bonuses. But with all those deaths caused by your greed on your conscience, do you sleep at night? Do you deserve to sleep at night?

[formercia]

10. He's having a Pina Colada with Ken Lay as we speak

IMHO

[cascadiance]

16. Down in the Cayman's?...

[Mnemosyne]

17. Nope, in Paraguay. n/t

[formercia]

20. In the belly of a Cayman would be my choice.

[Turbineguy]

12. They seek him here

they seek him there.

May I suggest the fleshpots of Bangkok?

[wtmusic]

13. Another hot scoop bites the dust

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4793089

Keep at it though, your Greenpeace buddies will need a new fix.

Here's some info which might be of interest: Michael Douglas Back on Booze

[Turbineguy]

14. Apparently not

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-30/tepco-president-shimizu-hospitalized-chairman-takes-charge.html

[Hannah Bell]

15. interpress news: another highly reliable source.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-30/tepco-president-shimizu-hospitalized-chairman-takes-charge.html

[jberryhill]

18. "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes..."

[kristopher]

19. Hospitalized for HBP?

Maybe, but then again, maybe not...

Welcome back. I thought I was going to have to represent DE all by myself.