Niigata

American

[nee-ee-gah-tah] / ˈni iˈgɑ tɑ /

noun

a seaport on NW Honshu, in central Japan.

Niigata British

/ ˈniːɪˌɡɑːtə /

noun

a port in central Japan, on NW Honshu at the mouth of the Shinano River: the chief port on the Sea of Japan. Pop: 514 678 (2002 est)

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The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata province had been closed since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, but operations to relaunch it had begun on Wednesday after it received the final green light from the nuclear regulator.

From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026

Niigata prefecture is a coastal idyll of steep mountains and lush rice paddies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025

A survey released by Niigata prefecture last month suggested 50% of the its residents supported the plant's restart, while 47% were against it.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025

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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