Tokyo DispatchJapan, in EnglishThe Japan Building Materials and Housing Equipment Industries Federation revoked the company's certification after finding it shipped concrete mixed to different formulas than buyers were promised.
Thirteen cases in which a former crime-lab employee was accused of falsifying DNA test documents will not be prosecuted, the Saga District Public Prosecutors Office said, effectively ending the investigation.
The company says it will rebuild itself after a business improvement order from the industry ministry, but residents in the host town say the explanation does not convince them.
The utility told regulators it still wants to restart the plant. Its accounts now treat the reactors as a write-off, and an accounting expert says the books read as a retreat.
The body that manages decommissioning money issued its first recommendation since it began the work in 2024, after Chubu Electric overstated costs at Hamaoka.
