Masataka Shimizu

Masataka Shimizu (Japanese清水 正 孝, Masataka Shimizu, born June 23, 1944 in Kanagawa Prefecture ) is a Japanese manager and was ( shachō torishimariyaku ) from 2008 to 2011 president of the energy company Tōkyō Denryoku ( TEPCO ) and a Vice President of the Japanese Economic - and the employers' association Nippon Keidanren.

Prior to his appointment as President of TEPCO as the successor of Tsunehisa Katsumata Shimizu was since 1968 in different position working for the company, most recently as managing director since 2004 and since 2006 as Vice President. As president, he initiated the first capital of the company by issuing new shares for 29 years. Result, the company will put in a position to invest in nuclear power and other measures to reduce CO2 emissions and to take part in foreign energy projects.

In July 2010, Shimizu was elected to the Board of the World Association of Nuclear Operators ( WANO ).

As his personal motto and part of his management philosophy called Shimizu kankyakka (看 脚下), a well-known expression of Zen Buddhism, the " pay attention to what is under your feet " about means.

After a press conference on March 13, 2011, two days after the beginning of the series of accidents at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima I, Masataka Shimizu has not been seen for a while in public; his absence was explained by disease. Because of the incidents and the associated losses of billions of TEPCO Shimizu's resignation was demanded by various parties. After one month of absence from the public Shimizu visited on 11 April 2011, the administration building of the Fukushima prefecture. The Governor Yuhei Satō Prefecture refused a meeting with him off. Later it became known that the Japanese government refused to grant him a place in a military machine with which on 11 March 2011, immediately after the accident, wanted to travel to the headquarters of crisis management it. His late arrival the next day will be made by experts for the reluctant crisis management of the Group with responsibility. On 20 May 2011 Shimizu announced to resign in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster to 28 June.

In June 2012, Shimizu performed as an external member of the Executive Board of Fuji Oil Company. Tepco is the largest shareholder of the parent company of Fuji Oil, Shimizu's new position was strongly kiritisiert in the Japanese public as golden parachutes.