Abstract
In 2019 three former executives of the Tokyo Electric Power Company were acquitted by the Tokyo District Court. They had shared responsibility for the company’s nuclear energy sector, and they were charged by a PRC with professional negligence for failing to prevent the meltdown of a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, which was precipitated by a giant earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. Despite these acquittals, the PRC did considerable good in this case, by instituting mandatory prosecution and thereby revealing facts about the meltdown that were previously unknown, denied, and concealed. By focusing on one of the biggest disasters in Japanese history, this case study illustrates the difficulty of controlling corporate crime and the PRC’s potential for fostering more effective law enforcement.
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