Niigata
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noun
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Hiroshi Sasaki, a professor at Niigata University who lives in the prefecture and opposes restarting the reactor, said residents don’t have enough information about evacuation plans and other safety measures for it to proceed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025
Hideyo Hanazumi, governor of Niigata province where the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant is located, told a news conference he "would approve" the resumption, which will need final permission by Japan's nuclear regulator.
From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025
Another 16,000 residents in the Niigata and Yamagata prefectures north of Ishikawa were also told to evacuate, the AFP news agency said.
From BBC • Sep. 22, 2024
Published in Nature Communications, the research was led by teams at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Brain Research Institute at Niigata University in Japan.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2024
Mama’s father came from a family of stonecutters around Niigata, on the inner coast of northern Japan.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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