Akihiko Tembo is under pressure to resign as President of Japanese oil company Idemitsu Kosan Co following the botched attempt to put out a fire at its Tomakomai, Hokkaido refinery following two recent earthquakes and several aftershocks starting Sept 25. Fires at the refinery’s naphtha storage tank three days later took 44 hours to extinguish….

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