In May 2011 several news reports appeared in Japan's English language press regarding the complaint of an Osaka day labourer who claims he accepted a job as a trucker in Miyagi Prefercture and instead was sent to work at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, owned by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)...Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited TEPCO to respond to these articles. TEPCO sent the following response to the Resource Centre: "Regarding the three articles, we don’t have direct employment contracts with those workers because the contracts were not made by TEPCO, but by subcontractors. The authorities are investigating the facts and the details. In addition, based on a request from Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, we advised our subcontractors that they should comply with the related law and rules"...