He said China suffers from an inadequate legal system and favoritism for local companies.

The panel's report faulted an inadequate legal system for nuclear crisis management, a crisis-command disarray caused by the government and Tepco, and possible excess meddling on the part of the prime minister's office in the early stage of the crisis.

The first civilian lawyer allowed to visit a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, said on Wednesday that his client was depressed, was enmeshed in an inadequate legal system that violated his rights and had been ill served by his home government of Australia.