Kansai Electric Power Transmission and Distribution Co., Ltd. (KEPCO) announced on the 1st that the treatment of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which are harmful to the human body and are used in power pole transformers, had been incompletely disposed of for about 20 years, and the government only recognized this after being damaged by the 2018 typhoon. It was announced that the company had made false reports to Osaka Prefecture. Vice President Kazuaki Takaichi, who was the department head at the time and instructed the report, resigned.