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Toshio Manabe, the president of Kyushu Electric Power, announced at a news conference that he will submit his resignation by the end of the year to help the utility regain the public trust that was damaged due to the revelation of their efforts to have the Genkai Nuclear Power Plant restarted by having employees send e-mails that were ostensibly from other citizens. Manabe said he accepts full responsibility for the e-mail scheme, and the timing of his resignation has always been in his mind. He also said he will resign as a director, and his replacement will likely be named at a Board of Directors’ meeting to be convened in January or February.