Tepco, and state, responsible: Kan (JAPAN)

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No player exempt from nuclear crisis redress burden, as government promoted atomic power

By MASAMI ITO
Staff writer/Japan Times

Prime Minister Naoto Kan acknowledged the government bears some responsibility for the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant crisis.

In Diet deliberations on the first supplementary budget of fiscal 2011 aimed at reconstructing disaster-hit areas in Tohoku, Kan promised victims, as well as those in the farming and fishing industries, that the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. would compensate them.

"It goes without saying the primary responsibility lies with Tepco, but the government, which has been promoting nuclear power plants, cannot be exempt from responsibility," Kan said.

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