Chubu Electric Power

The Japanese yen, along with Japanese stocks, fell on Thursday on news that the economy had fallen into a recession in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan in March. The Japanese economy fell at annual rate of 3.7% during the first three months of...

Chubu Electric Power Co. announced on Monday in Japan that it had agreed to a request from the Japanese government to shut down the company's Hamaoka nuclear power plant. The shutdown comes in response to Prime Minister Naoto Kan's request to halt power generating operations at Hamaoka's three...