Masao Yoshida was a nuclear engineer who served as plant manager of the Tokyo Electric Power Company Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant during the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
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Yoshida (right, in white vest) meets with Prime Minister Kan (center left) on 12 March 2011, the morning after a tsunami struck the Fukushima plant.
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Naoto Kan is a Japanese former politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Democratic Party of Japan from June 2010 to September 2011.
Masao Yoshida (nuclear engineer)
…Yoshida decided to vent the plant's Daiichi Unit 1 as a core meltdown was causing the reactor to exceed its maximum internal pressure. Prime Minister Naoto Kan travelled to Fukushima early the next morning to meet with Yoshida and other TEPCO officials and discuss TEPCO's venting plans. Yoshida left the plant's…
Official portrait, 2010
Kan with U.S. president Barack Obama at the 2010 G-20 Toronto summit on 27 June 2010
Prime Minister Kan giving the government's speech in front of the assembled lawmakers, in the presence of the Emperor Akihito and the Empress Michiko seated in the Chamber of the House of Councillors of the National Diet (29 November 2010)
Kan giving a press conference on the day of the Fukushima nuclear accident.