Tohoku Electric Power Co. announced it will promote Vice President Hiroya Harada, to president. President Makoto Kaiwa, will become chairman, replacing Hiroaki Takahashi, who will serve as a consultant for the company.

The appointments will be formalized at a board meeting to be held after a general shareholders' meeting in late June. Harada joined Tohoku Electric Power in 1978. He took up the current post in June 2014, after being appointed director in 2010.