, ComIH is a director and the chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. (TEPCO), a semi-nationalized electric utility company responsible for causing the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, and the former chairman and president of

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, the Japanese multinational electronics and engineering conglomerate. He had worked at Hitachi for his entire business career and retired as senior adviser to the company in June 2016. On request of the Japanese government, Kawamura has served as chairman of the electric power company since June 2017.

Education

Kawamura attended the

University of Tokyo , abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project b ...

, receiving a

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in electrical engineering in 1962.

Business career

Kawamura joined Hitachi in 1962. He rose up through the ranks, becoming general manager of the Hitachi Works (turbine and electric generator factory in Hitachi, Ibaraki) in 1992, executive of the Electric Utility Sales Operations Group in 1995, managing director of the Power Group in 1997, and vice president in 1999. From 2003 to 2007, he served as Representative Executive Officer of Hitachi Solutions. In 2005, he became chairman of Hitachi Plant Engineering & Construction and

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. In 2009, he became president of the company. He served for one year until he was replaced by

Hiroaki Nakanishi was a Japanese businessman and chairman of Hitachi. He became the 10th president of Hitachi in 2010, and in 2014, assumed the position of chairman and CEO. He was also chairman of the compensation committee and general manager of the post-earthq ...

. He was then made chairman of the board of directors. As chairman, he hired many outside directors, making it the first board in Hitachi's history to have more outside directors than Hitachi insiders. He has also served as the chairman of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (2004), chairman of the Communications and Information Network Association of Japan (2010), and vice chairman of the

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(2010).

Honours

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Commander of the Order of Prince Henry,

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(21 January 2014)

References

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Education

Business career

Honours

See also

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