Nippon Paper Industries announced that its president and other officials will hold a press conference tomorrow, the first since the earthquake on the 28th of last month, which caused a factory chimney to collapse in Yatsushiro City, Kumamoto Prefecture, resulting in 9 deaths.

Nippon Paper Industries has announced that nine people, including six of its employees and three from partner companies, died at its Yatsushiro factory in Kumamoto Prefecture. The deaths occurred after a chimney collapsed during an earthquake.

Nearly half of those killed were caught up in two major incidents: Nippon Paper Industries' paper mill, which suffered major structural damage, and Aeon's shopping mall, where a possible gas explosion occurred