Sticking to the subject, two stories in the Japan Times Wednesday.

1. Unsanctioned Reactors Running on Test Mode. Story from Bloomberg.
"Kansai Electric Power Co. and Hokkaido Electric Power Co. are operating two nuclear reactors without approval...."
"A reactor at Kepco's Ohi nuclear plant is operating at full capacity without the final go-ahead from the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, ... said a spokesman from the Osaka-based utility.
"The same applies for a reactor at Hokkaido Electric's Tomari plant, spokesman Hisatoshi Kibayashi said."
"... It's unusual the reactors are running for four months on a tst basis, but there is nothing illegal about it," said Tomohiro Sawada, an assistant director at NISA's nuclear power inspection division."
... "The approvals for the Ohi and Tomari reactors haven't been granted because Kepco and Hokkaido Electric have yet to submit requests to NIsa, .... Both reactors are supplying power to the electricity grid."

Makes one wonder what regulatory power the government has.

2. TEPCO pledges 300,000 yen more to each evacuee. ... "The payment follows the first provisional compensation payment, in which Tepco gave up to one million yen to each household within 30 km of the radiation-leaking plant....
People who did not evacuate but were in areas where residents were asked to stay indoors will be paid 100,000 yen each. ...
The total amount of additional compensation will reach up to 48 million yen.

There are stories that the company may go into bankruptcy.

The paper also has more on the inspections being required on food and farm items from Shizuoka Prefecture after green tea leaves imported to France were found to be double the EU limit for radioactive caesium.