niigata prefecture. the company has apologized to the governor of the prefecture for concealing multiple meltdowns at the fukushima plant in 2011. takafumi anna ga wa met with niigata governor. >> translator: we apologize for failing to investigate enough to properly respond to your inquurys. >> nearly five years after the accident tepco executives admitted this february that if they had properly followed their own in-house manual, the meltdowns would have been announced much sooner. they also acknowledged that the company president at the time instructed spokespersons not to use the term "core meltdown." the revelation came after officials in niigata demanded tepco sman why they failed to announce the grave situation for two months. >> translator: i want a thorough investigation into what went wrong. and i want to know what measures the company has taken to prevent the same thing from happening again. >> governor izumida says a full investigation is needed before negotiations can proceed on whether to al

the nuclear plant in fukushima wants to restart similar reactors in another part of japan, niigata prefecture. the company has apologized to the governor of the prefecture for concealing multiple meltdowns at the plant in 2011. the head of power company met with him. >> translator: we apologize for not properly respond to your inquiries. >> nearly five year after the accident, tepco members said if they properly followed their own manual, the meltdowns would have been announced much sooner. they also acknowledged that the company president at the time encouraged spokesperson not to use the term core meltdown. the revelation came after niigata officials urged tepco to announce why they waited to announce for two months. >> translator: i want a thorough investigigation into whahat wen wrong and i want to know the measurures the company has take to prevent the same thing from happening again. >> the governor says a full investigation is neeeeded on whether to decide whether to allow a nuclear plant to restart in his prefecture. >>> let's now get a check on the markets. tokyo shares fluctuated in