TOKYO
The Tokyo metropolitan government introduced summertime working hours for its employees Monday to help the capital’s economy reduce electricity consumption due to expected supply shortages amid the ongoing nuclear crisis.
Some 1,000 employees showed up for work earlier than usual in the morning, with their starting times brought forward by one hour or 30 minutes to 7:30 a.m., 8 a.m. and 9 a.m., respectively, from the current 8:30 a.m., 9 a.m. and 9:30 a.m., it said.
The new hours will be applied for about 9,500 employees by next Monday at its headquarters in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward on a trial basis before being introduced to the whole of around 25,000 employees including those at its branch offices from July to September.
‘‘Although it may be hard until I get used to the system, it was cool in the morning and the train was less crowded,’’ a 39-year-old male employee who came to work at 7:30 a.m. said.
Power supply shortages are expected in the summer in the service area of Tokyo Electric Power Co as its nuclear plants in Fukushima Prefecture stay crippled or idle after the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
JAPANTODAY
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