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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The decision by the startup Rapidus Corp. to build a semiconductor factory in Chitose, Hokkaido, is being touted as the biggest business investment ever for the northernmost main island.
A company official in a ski resort area of Hokkaido was elated over the expected wave of foreign tourists pouring into Japan, but he quickly expressed a sense of caution.
SAPPORO In a blow to Hokkaido Electric Power Co., the Sapporo District Court on May 31 ordered that the reactors at its Tomari nuclear plant remain offline.