The World - News from Nov. 3, 1988
Four Japanese utilities, in an apparent move to cut economic ties with white-ruled South Africa, said they will not renew contracts to import uranium from South Africa or its territory of Namibia. News reports in Tokyo named the four regional utilities as Tohoku Electric Power Co., Kansai Electric Power Co., Chubu Electric Power Co. and Kyushu Electric Power Co. The four own 16 of the 35 nuclear reactors operating in Japan, which gets about 29% of its electricity from nuclear plants. Japan has been embarrassed by its emergence as South Africa’s biggest trading partner while other Western nations have reduced trade to protest apartheid.
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