SUTTSU, Hokkaido Backers of keeping their town on a list of candidates for a nuclear waste depository won a majority in a municipal assembly election here, but those opposed to the project together marshaled 49 percent of the votes.
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KAMOENAI, Hokkaido The incumbent mayor here handily won re-election in the first mayoral race in 36 years, after he started the process to attract a facility to store highly radioactive nuclear waste.