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Maritime festival in southwestern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows fishing boats parading in the Genkai Sea off Munakata in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka on Oct. 1, 2025, during the Miare Festival, part of the autumn festivities at Munakata shrine to wish for a bountiful seafood catch and safety at sea.

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Maritime festival in southwestern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows fishing boats parading in the Genkai Sea off Munakata in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka on Oct. 1, 2025, during the Miare Festival, part of the autumn festivities at Munakata shrine to wish for a bountiful seafood catch and safety at sea.

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Maritime festival in southwestern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows fishing boats parading in the Genkai Sea off Munakata in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka on Oct. 1, 2025, during the Miare Festival, part of the autumn festivities at Munakata shrine to wish for a bountiful seafood catch and safety at sea.

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Maritime festival in southwestern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows fishing boats parading in the Genkai Sea off Munakata in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka on Oct. 1, 2025, during the Miare Festival, part of the autumn festivities at Munakata shrine to wish for a bountiful seafood catch and safety at sea.

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Maritime festival in southwestern Japan

Fishing boats parade in the Genkai Sea off Munakata in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka on Oct. 1, 2024, during the Miare Festival, part of the autumn festival at Munakata shrine to wish for a bountiful seafood catch and safety at sea.

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Maritime festival in southwestern Japan

Fishing boats parade in the Genkai Sea off Munakata in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka on Oct. 1, 2024, during the Miare Festival, part of the autumn festival at Munakata shrine to wish for a bountiful seafood catch and safety at sea.

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Maritime festival in southwestern Japan

Fishing boats parade in the Genkai Sea off Munakata in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka on Oct. 1, 2024, during the Miare Festival, part of the autumn festival at Munakata shrine to wish for a bountiful seafood catch and safety at sea.

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Genkai mayor approves nuclear waste site survey

Shintaro Wakiyama, mayor of Genkai in Saga Prefecture, speaks at a press conference at the municipal office in the southwestern Japan town on May 10, 2024, following his approval for a preliminary survey to gauge the town's suitability for the construction of an underground disposal site for highly radioactive waste.(Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Genkai mayor approves nuclear waste site survey

Saga, Japan, May 10 Kyodo -Shintaro Wakiyama, mayor of Genkai in Saga Prefecture, speaks at a press conference at the municipal office in the southwestern Japan town on May 10, 2024, following his approval for a preliminary survey to gauge the town's suitability for the construction of an underground disposal site for highly radioactive waste.

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Genkai nuclear power plant in southwestern Japan

File photo taken on April 24, 2024, shows reactors No. 1 (back) and No. 2 of Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai nuclear power plant in the town of Genkai, Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan.

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Genkai nuclear power plant

File photo taken on April 24, 2024, shows Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai nuclear power plant (far back) in the town of Genkai, Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan.

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Genkai nuclear power plant

File photo taken on April 24, 2024, shows Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai nuclear power plant (far back) in the town of Genkai, Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan.

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Genkai nuclear power plant

File photo taken on April 24, 2024, shows Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai nuclear power plant (far back) in the town of Genkai, Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan.

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Genkai nuclear power plant

File photo taken on April 24, 2024, shows Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai nuclear power plant (far back) in the town of Genkai, Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan.

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Genkai mayor approves nuclear waste site survey

Shintaro Wakiyama, mayor of Genkai in Saga Prefecture, speaks at a press conference at the municipal office in the southwestern Japan town on May 10, 2024, following his approval for a preliminary survey to gauge the town's suitability for the construction of an underground disposal site for highly radioactive waste.

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Genkai mayor approves nuclear waste site survey

Shintaro Wakiyama, mayor of Genkai in Saga Prefecture, speaks at a press conference at the municipal office in the southwestern Japan town on May 10, 2024, following his approval for a preliminary survey to gauge the town's suitability for the construction of an underground disposal site for highly radioactive waste.

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Genkai mayor approves nuclear waste site survey

Shintaro Wakiyama, mayor of Genkai in Saga Prefecture, speaks at a press conference at the municipal office in the southwestern Japan town on May 10, 2024, following his approval for a preliminary survey to gauge the town's suitability for the construction of an underground disposal site for highly radioactive waste.

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Exterior view of Kyushu Electric Power's Genkai Nuclear Power Station

Exterior view of Kyushu Electric Power's Genkai Nuclear Power Station. ＝Saga Prefecture, April 27, 2024.

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Exterior view of Kyushu Electric Power's Genkai Nuclear Power Station

Exterior view of the Genkai Nuclear Power Plant of Kyushu Electric Power Co. ＝Saga Prefecture, April 27, 2024.

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Maritime ritual at southwestern Japan shrine

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows fishing boats parading through the Genkai Sea off Munakata in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka on Oct. 1, 2023, during the Miare Festival, part of the autumn festival at Munakata shrine to wish for a bountiful seafood catch and safety at sea.

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Maritime ritual at southwestern Japan shrine

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows fishing boats parading through the Genkai Sea off Munakata in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka on Oct. 1, 2023, during the Miare Festival, part of the autumn festival at Munakata shrine to wish for a bountiful seafood catch and safety at sea.

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Autumn festival at Munakata Shrine begins

FUKUOKA, Japan, Oct. 1 Kyodo - About 200 fishing boats parade in the Genkai Sea, the southwestern portion of the Sea of Japan, off the city of Munakata in Fukuoka Prefecture, western Japan, on Oct. 1, 2017, during the Miare Festival, part of the autumn festival at Munakata Shrine, a World Cultural Heritage site. The event is held to pray for the safety of sea traffic and a good haul.

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Residents get iodine to prepare for possible nuke mishap

KARATSU, Japan - Residents in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, receive iodine tablets from pharmacists on Sept. 28, 2014, in preparation for a possible accident at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai nuclear power plant located nearby.

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Kyushu Electric considers decommissioning Genkai No. 1 reactor

FUKUOKA, Japan - Kyushu Electric Power Co. is considering decommissioning the No. 1 reactor (front), seen in this photo taken in June 2013, at its nuclear plant in Genkai Town, Saga Prefecture, on Japan's southwestern main island of Kyushu.

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Fuel rods removed at Genkai nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan - Work is underway to remove fuel rods from the No. 3 reactor at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai nuclear power plant in Genkai Town, Saga Prefecture, in March 2013. Japan did not include 640kg of unused plutonium in its annual report to the International Atomic Energy Agency in 2012 and 2013. The unreported plutonium is part of the MOX fuel which was loaded to the No. 3 reactor in March 2011 during its regular checkup but was removed unused in March 2013 as the reactor has remained idle since the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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No. 3 reactor at Genkai plant in Saga Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - The No. 3 unit (R) of Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai power plant in Genkai Town, Saga Prefecture, is photographed in June 2013.

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Power-saving summer

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in June 2011 shows Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai Nuclear Power Station in Genkai, Saga Prefecture. Japan will go into power-saving mode on July 2 with no prospects in sight for the immediate reactivation of Genkai and most other nuclear power plants that are currently idled.

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Lawsuit seeking to halt Genkai plant

SAGA, Japan - Plaintiffs head to the Saga District Court in Saga Prefecture on March 12, 2012. A pending lawsuit seeking to shut down Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai nuclear power plant was joined by another 1,370 people that day, bringing the total number of plaintiffs to roughly 3,000, the largest among suits against nuclear power plants, according to lawyers.

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1,704 people seek shutdown of Genkai nuclear plant

SAGA, Japan - Akira Hasegawa, former president of Saga University, holds a press conference in Saga city on Jan. 31, 2012, after a group of 1,704 people he leads sued the government and the operator of the Genkai nuclear power plant in Saga Prefecture earlier in the day, demanding that all four reactors at the plant be halted. The 1,704 people from across Japan comprise the largest number of plaintiffs in a pending nuclear-related suit.

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Genkai power plant's No. 4 reactor building

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows the building housing the No. 4 reactor at the Genkai nuclear power plant in the town of Genkai, Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan. Kyushu Electric Power Co. suspended the reactor's operation on Dec. 25, 2011, for a regular checkup.

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Saga Gov. Furukawa in press conference

SAGA, Japan - Saga Gov. Yasushi Furukawa speaks during a press conference at the prefectural government building in Saga, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 22, 2011. Furukawa apologized after a report concluded that the prefectural government was aware of Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s attempted manipulation of public opinion on introducing a plutonium-thermal power generation project at the local Genkai nuclear power plant during a public forum in 2005. The report denied Furukawa's involvement in the matter.

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Genkai nuclear reactor resumes power generation

GENKAI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 2, 2011, shows the No. 4 reactor building (R of the two domed buildings) at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai nuclear power plant. The reactor resumed power generation the same day, after it was reactivated the previous day following a one-month hiatus, the company said.

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Genkai nuclear reactor resumes power generation

GENKAI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 2, 2011, shows the No. 4 reactor building at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai nuclear power plant. The reactor resumed power generation the same day, after it was reactivated the previous day following a one-month hiatus, the company said.

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Genkai nuclear power plant

GENKAI, Japan - Kyushu Electric Power Co. resumes operation of the No. 4 reactor at the Genkai nuclear power station in Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, late on Nov. 1, 2011. The reactor came to a halt as a result of human error nearly a month earlier.

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Genkai nuclear power plant

FUKUOKA, Japan - File photo taken in June 2011 shows the No. 4 reactor at the Genkai nuclear power station operated by Kyushu Electric Power Co. in Saga Prefecture.

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Genkai nuclear power plant

GENKAI, Japan - Kyushu Electric Power Co. resumes operation of the No. 4 reactor at the Genkai nuclear power station in Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, late on Nov. 1, 2011. The reactor came to a halt as a result of human error nearly a month earlier.

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Kyushu Electric managers to stay on

FUKUOKA, Japan - Kyushu Electric Power Co. President Toshio Manabe speaks during a press conference in Fukuoka on Oct. 14, 2011. The utility announced a three-month, 100-percent salary cut for Manabe and Chairman Shingo Matsuo over a scandal involving the company manipulating public opinion in favor of restarting reactors at its Genkai nuclear power plant in Saga Prefecture. The two top executives will remain in their posts.

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Genkai nuclear plant's No. 4 reactor

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken in June 2011 from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 4 reactor at the Genkai nuclear power plant in the town of Genkai, Saga Prefecture. The reactor automatically shut down on Oct. 4, 2011, after an abnormality was detected in the condenser of its secondary cooling water system, according to its operator Kyushu Electric Power Co.

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Governor's comment taken to urge utility into scandal

SAGA, Japan - Saga Gov. Yasushi Furukawa speaks at a press conference in the city of Saga on July 30, 2011. He admitted he made comments that seem to have urged Kyushu Electric Power Co. to fake public support -- during a government-sponsored TV program -- for restarting reactors of the Genkai nuclear power plant in the prefecture.

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Genkai nuclear power plant

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo shows the Genkai nuclear power plant and houses and paddy fields around the facility in the town of Genkai, Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on July 10, 2011. The operator Kyushu Electric Power Co. has been rocked by a scandal in which the utility tried to make locals look supportive of restarting its nuclear reactors through phony e-mail messages during a ministry-sponsored event broadcast live on cable TV and via the Internet.

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Genkai nuclear power plant

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo shows the Genkai nuclear power plant and houses around it in the town of Genkai, Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on July 10, 2011. Japan's idled nuclear power plants must undergo the forthcoming ''stress tests'' as a precondition for restarting, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said the following day.

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Restart of Genkai reactors put on hold

GENKAI, Japan - Hideo Kishimoto, mayor of the town of Genkai, Saga Prefecture, speaks at a press conference in the town on July 7, 2011. He retracted earlier approval for the restart of two reactors at the Genkai nuclear power plant, which were shut down for regular checkups.

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Suit against Genkai nuclear plant

SAGA, Japan - Plaintiffs enter the Saga District Court in the city of Saga on July 7, 2011, to file a motion seeking a temporary court order banning the restart of the No. 2 and 3 reactors of the Genkai nuclear power plant in Saga Prefecture.

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Genkai nuclear power plant

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on June 9, 2011, shows the Genkai nuclear power plant operated by Kyushu Electric Power Co. in the town of Genkai, Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan. Japan plans to conduct safety assessments called ''stress tests'' on all its nuclear power plants to allay heightened public concerns over their safety, industry minister Banri Kaieda said July 6, 2011.

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Genkai nuclear power plant

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on June 9, 2011, shows the Nos. 2 (back) and 3 (front) reactors of the Genkai nuclear power plant operated by Kyushu Electric Power Co. in the town of Genkai, Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan. Japan plans to conduct safety assessments called ''stress tests'' on all its nuclear power plants to allay heightened public concerns over their safety, industry minister Banri Kaieda said July 6, 2011.

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Mayor approves restart of Genkai nuclear reactors

GENKAI, Japan - Kyushu Electric Power Co. President Toshio Manabe (L) speaks at a press conference in the town of Genkai, Saga Prefecture, on July 4, 2011, after meeting Genkai Mayor Hideo Kishimoto (R). The mayor approved the resumption of two suspended reactors at the Genkai nuclear power plant.

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Genkai nuclear power plant

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the suspended No. 2 (front) and No. 3 (back) reactors of the Genkai nuclear power plant in the town of Genkai, Saga Prefecture, in June 2011.

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Saga Gov. Furukawa

SAGA, Japan - Saga Gov. Yasushi Furukawa speaks during a prefectural assembly session in the city of Saga on July 1, 2011. The governor expressed his willingness to resume operation of two reactors at the Genkai nuclear power station in the southwestern Japan prefecture.

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Minister Kaieda in Saga

SAGA, Japan - Japanese industry minister Banri Kaieda speaks to reporters at Saga prefectural office in the city of Saga on June 29, 2011, after a meeting with Saga Gov. Yasushi Furukawa. Furukawa assured Kaieda of the safety of resuming the operation of two nuclear reactors which have been halted for regular checkups at the Genkai power plant in the southwestern Japan prefecture.

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Saga Gov. Furukawa speaks to reporters

SAGA, Japan - Saga Gov. Yasushi Furukawa (C) talks to reporters at Saga prefectural office in the city of Saga on June 29, 2011, after a meeting with industry minister Banri Kaieda. Furukawa assured Kaieda of the safety of resuming the operation of two nuclear reactors which have been halted for regular checkups at the Genkai power plant in the southwestern Japan prefecture.