AOC Holdings Inc. announced that Masataka Shimizu, former president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., will become an outside board member at the Fuji Oil Co., Ltd. unit as of June 25, 2012. Shimizu was the president of TEPCO when the nuclear accident occurred in March, 2011 at the Fukushima No. 1 plant. After stepping down in June 2011, he served as an unpaid TEPCO adviser until the end of March, 2012. The appointment may spur criticism, as Shimizu resigned from TEPCO to take responsibility for the accident.