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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (0) Follow Reuters Facebook Twitter RSS YouTube Read WikiLeaks' Assange gets Australian peace prize 10 May 2011 Facebook may have leaked your personal information: Symantec 12:46am EDT Man jumps to death off world's tallest tower in Dubai 10 May 2011 Mississippi River crests near record at Memphis | 10 May 2011 U.S. warned Pakistan it would come to get bin Laden 10 May 2011 Discussed 144 Obama at U.S. base to pay tribute to bin Laden mission 124 Boehner demands trillion-dollar cuts in debt deal 88 Son says bin Laden sea burial demeans family: report Watched Microsoft to buy Skype for $8.5 bln Tue, May 10 2011 U.S. and China find common ground on currency Tue, May 10 2011 Japan refugees make brief trip home Tue, May 10 2011 Japan aims for Tepco compensation scheme this week Tweet Share this By Taiga Uranaka and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's trade minister said he was aiming for cabinet approval this week of a government-backed scheme to help Tokyo Electric Power pay for damages caused by the crisis at its Fukushima Daiichi... Email Print Related News Japan government: Tepco faces unlimited liability for crisis Tue, May 10 2011 Japan to shut nuclear plant on quake fears Mon, May 9 2011 Japan "committed to nuclear power" despite shutdown Sun, May 8 2011 Tokyo Electric may face $25 billion in liabilities: report Tue, May 3 2011 BOJ believes Japan in recession, stands pat on policy Thu, Apr 28 2011 Analysis & Opinion Libya rebel funding will require legal creativity Portugal’s bank rescue plan has one hole Related Topics World » Japan » Nuclear Power » Stocks By Taiga Uranaka and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO | Wed May 11, 2011 3:28am EDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's trade minister said he was aiming for cabinet approval this week of a government-backed scheme to help Tokyo Electric Power pay for damages caused by the crisis at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Earlier on Wednesday Tokyo Electric said it had accepted conditions set by the government in return for state assistance, including further restructuring and unlimited liability in paying compensation to crisis victims. Trade Minister Banri Kaieda said he would like the cabinet to approve the scheme to facilitate compensation payouts on Thursday or Friday. He did not give details of the plan. Sources have told Reuters the scheme would involve the establishment of a fund to meet the initial flood of compensation claims, which are expected to run into the tens of billions of dollars. It will be funded in part by contributions from other nuclear plant operators, the sources said. "The scheme is likely to be what the market has expected, with bond holders to be protected and no cap on Tokyo Electric's liabilities," said Kazuya Nakamura, deputy general manager at Norinchukin Zenkyoren Asset Management. "Now, the market's attention will shift to how much Tokyo Electric's actual liabilities will be," he said. Tokyo Electric Power Co likely made a net loss of more than 1 trillion yen ($12.4 billion) in the year that ended on March 31, the biggest ever for a non-financial Japanese firm, after booking costs to scrap nuclear reactors and writing off tax assets, the Nikkei newspaper reported earlier on Wednesday. Tokyo Electric will sell assets worth about 500 billion yen, the paper said, to help cover costs from the crisis at its plant, which was crippled by a massive earthquake and tsunami two months ago and is still leaking radiation. Tokyo Electric is expected to finalize its accounts for the year ended in March once the scheme is officially approved, and announce its earnings later this month. The earnings announcement has been delayed due to uncertainty over its liabilities and how it will finance compensation. JP Morgan has estimated the company will incur losses of 2 trillion yen ($24.7 billion) in the financial year that began on April 1 due to the compensation burden, while Bank of America-Merrill Lynch said the bill could reach $130 billion if the crisis drags on. BURDEN SHARING Tokyo Electric has estimated the cost of scrapping four damaged reactors at the Fukushima plant at 600 billion yen and it plans to book the amount as an extraordinary loss for the financial year that just ended, the Nikkei said. It also plans to book a one-time charge to write off deferred tax assets of about 480 billion yen, the paper said. The scheme under consideration by the government would require Tokyo Electric to reimburse the compensation fund over several years or even decades from its annual profits, while the government would shore up the company by buying preferred shares if necessary, sources familiar with the matter have said. Tokyo Electric and its creditor banks have been pushing for a compensation plan that would include substantial government help, capping the utility's liabilities and protecting its shareholders and bond owners. They argue that, given the sheer volume of Tokyo Electric bonds, it is essential to prevent a cut in its credit rating to junk status, which could wreak havoc not only with other utilities' bond issues but with the entire bond market. Tokyo Electric is the biggest corporate bond issuer in Japan, representing about 8 percent, or about 5 trillion yen, of the 70 trillion yen Japanese corporate bond market. Trade Minister Kaieda also on Tuesday called for cooperation from the utility's creditor banks, without giving details, but an executive at one top bank said it would not accept a reduction in interest payments or a partial debt waiver. "If Tokyo Electric makes such a request, it would trigger a credit event and the company would be seen as going into default. Neither the company nor the government would want that to happen," the executive told reporters late on Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter. "What Tokyo Electric needs most from the banks now is to keep its loan balance maintained," the executive added. The utility's main creditor bank Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp and other lenders provided 1.9 trillion yen in emergency loans to the company in the immediate aftermath of the nuclear crisis. ($1 = 80.835 Japanese Yen) (Additional reporting by Krishna N Das in Bangalore; Editing by Edmund Klamann and Nathan Layne) World Japan Nuclear Power Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. 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