Pro-nuclear candidate wins mayoral race in plant host city

Masahiro Sakurai celebrates on the night of Nov. 20, 2016, after winning the mayoral election in Kashiwazaki in Niigata Prefecture, the city that hosts the world's biggest nuclear power plant. Sakurai, a 54-year-old former Kashiwazaki city council member, has pledged to conditionally approve the restart of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa complex on the Sea of Japan coast. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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