Press Conference by the Chief Cabinet Secretary (Excerpt)

Opening Statement by Chief Cabinet Secretary Fujimura

(Abridged)

Q&As

• Data released by TEPCO on the radiation dose at the time of the accident

(Abridged)

REPORTER: Regarding a different subject matter, yesterday, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) released data on the radiation dose at the time of the accident. What is your opinion regarding the fact that more than a year and a half after the accident, there are still key data from the time of the accident which are undisclosed?

CHIEF CABINET SECRETARY FUJIMURA: The bottom line is that TEPCO missed releasing some data. However, it was not as though the data was undisclosed. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) had been releasing data on the radiation doses of areas around TEPCO's power station, and therefore, it is not as though for that period there were no data. It was announced yesterday that only TEPCO had not released some data of the monitoring post of Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station for a certain period. As NISA has already released data on the radiation doses at the time, my understanding is that it was not as though no data were released.

(Abridged)