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SUTTSU, Hokkaido The mayor’s plan here to host a nuclear waste storage site to boost town coffers will be the foremost issue when residents go to the polls in the Suttsu town mayoral election on Oct. 26.
Furore in Japanese town casts light on Fukushima s legacy
12 Mar, 2021 04:00 AM
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Suttsu, a town on the northern island of Hokkaido, is one of only two localities in Japan to volunteer for a study on nuclear waste. Photo / Noriko Hayashi, The New York Times
Suttsu, a town on the northern island of Hokkaido, is one of only two localities in Japan to volunteer for a study on nuclear waste. Photo / Noriko Hayashi, The New York Times
New York Times
By: Ben Dooley and Hisako Ueno
When a mayor volunteered his town for a study on nuclear waste, his house was firebombed, reflecting the lingering anxiety 10 years after the Fukushima disaster.
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