佐藤雄平・福島県知事（右）に頭を下げる東京電力の清水正孝社長＝２２日午前１０時６分、福島市、小宮路勝撮影 Masataka Shimizu, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., meets with Fukushima prefectural Governor Yuhei Sato in Fukushima on April 22. (Masaru Komiyaji)
東京電力の清水正孝社長が２２日、福島第一原発事故の発生以来初めて、福島県の佐藤雄平知事と面会し、「大変なご迷惑をかけ、責任を感じている。住民が一日も早く安心して暮らせるよう事故収束に向けて確実に取り組む」と謝罪した。
清水社長は午前１０時に県庁を訪れた。知事室で迎えた佐藤知事に深く頭を下げ、消え入りそうな声で「心からおわび申し上げます」と繰り返した。
佐藤知事はまず「東電が収束への道筋を示し、必ず実行すると約束したことで、謝罪を受けることにした」と述べた。事故以来、県外へ約６千人の子どもが避難したことを挙げ、「これまで県民の流出を抑えようとがんばってきたが、一瞬のうちに消え去ってしまった」と時折声を詰まらせた。一日も早い収束に加え、県民への損害賠償と雇用の確保、現場作業員の待遇向上などを求め、「今のような状況では（福島原発の）再稼働はありえない」と釘を刺した。
清水社長は１１日にも県庁を訪れたが、佐藤知事との調整がつかなかった。佐藤知事は２２日の面会で「当日にいきなり電話をよこし、名刺を置いていったのは失礼だ」と抗議した。（山吉健太郎）
Embattled TEPCO eyes 20% pay cut for all employees
2011/04/23
Tokyo Electric Power Co. is looking to cut employee salaries by 20 percent and sell off company-owned stock and real estate to help pay compensation and other costs associated with the accident at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
This salary cut is expected to generate 60 billion yen ($731 million) annually.
The average TEPCO employee makes about 7.6 million yen a year. Management has proposed to its labor union that all employees take a 5-percent pay cut and a 50-percent reduction in bonuses.
Larger cuts in directors' and managers' salaries are also expected.
TEPCO President Masataka Shimizu said earlier that the company was considering downsizing, hinting at the possibility of soliciting voluntary early retirements.
TEPCO holds stock in about 250 firms, worth about 300 billion yen, as of the end of March 2010. The largest holding is about 350,000 shares in KDDI Corp., worth 180 billion yen.
The utility is one of KDDI's largest shareholders with 8 percent of its stock. If TEPCO were to dump all of the KDDI stock, the firm's stock price would plummet.
Fears of a possible sell-off are already driving down KDDI share prices.
TEPCO also plans to sell its real estate holdings, as long as the sales do not interfere with its power business operations.
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