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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

NIIGATA, Japan, Nov. 21 Kyodo - Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi holds an unscheduled press conference in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 21, 2025, saying he will approve the restart of the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the prefecture, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis. (Kyodo)

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Members of a citizens group rally in front of the Niigata prefectural government office in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 21, 2025, in protest over Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi's decision the same day to approve the restart of the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the prefecture, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Members of a citizens group rally in front of the Niigata prefectural government office in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 21, 2025, in protest over Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi's decision the same day to approve the restart of the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the prefecture, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Members of a citizens group rally in front of the Niigata prefectural government office in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 21, 2025, in protest over Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi's decision the same day to approve the restart of the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the prefecture, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi holds an unscheduled press conference in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 21, 2025, saying he will approve the restart of the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the prefecture, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi holds an unscheduled press conference in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 21, 2025, saying he will approve the restart of the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the prefecture, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi holds an unscheduled press conference in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 21, 2025, saying he will approve the restart of the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the prefecture, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi holds an unscheduled press conference in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 21, 2025, saying he will approve the restart of the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the prefecture, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Photo taken on Nov. 7, 2025, shows the No. 6 reactor (C) at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi agreed on Nov. 21 to the restart of the reactor, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Photo taken on Nov. 7, 2025, shows the No. 6 reactor (C) at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi agreed on Nov. 21 to the restart of the reactor, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Niigata gov. OKs TEPCO's 1st nuclear reactor restart since Fukushima

Photo taken on Nov. 7, 2025, shows the No. 6 reactor (C) at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi agreed on Nov. 21 to the restart of the reactor, the first for its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Japanese emperor, empress meet prize recipients

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako meet recipients of the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize in Tokyo on Aug. 22, 2025.

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Japanese emperor, empress meet prize recipients

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (L) and Empress Masako meet recipients of the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize in Tokyo on Aug. 22, 2025.

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Japanese emperor, empress meet prize recipients

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (L) and Empress Masako meet recipients of the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize in Tokyo on Aug. 22, 2025.

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Japanese emperor, empress meet prize recipients

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (L) and Empress Masako attend a gathering with recipients of the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize in Tokyo on Aug. 22, 2025.

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Japanese emperor, empress meet prize recipients

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (L) and Empress Masako attend a gathering with recipients of the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize in Tokyo on Aug. 22, 2025.

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Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize award ceremony

Abdoulaye Djimde of Mali, a recipient of the fifth Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize, speaks at an award ceremony in Tokyo on Aug. 22, 2025. The prize is named after Japanese biologist Hideyo Noguchi, who died in Ghana in 1928 while carrying out research on yellow fever. (Pool photo)

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Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize award ceremony

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (back, R) and Empress Masako are greeted by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (front, L) upon arriving at the venue of a ceremony in honor of the fifth Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize laureates in Tokyo on Aug. 22, 2025. The prize is named after Japanese biologist Hideyo Noguchi, who died in Ghana in 1928 while carrying out research on yellow fever.

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Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize award ceremony

Abdoulaye Djimde (L) of Mali, a recipient of the fifth Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize, is congratulated by Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at an award ceremony in Tokyo on Aug. 22, 2025. The prize is named after Japanese biologist Hideyo Noguchi, who died in Ghana in 1928 while carrying out research on yellow fever. (Pool photo)

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Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize award ceremony

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (front, R, facing camera) and Empress Masako are pictured after attending a ceremony in honor of the fifth Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize laureates in Tokyo on Aug. 22, 2025. The prize is named after Japanese biologist Hideyo Noguchi, who died in Ghana in 1928 while carrying out research on yellow fever. (Pool photo)

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Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize award ceremony

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (2nd from L) and Empress Masako (3rd from L) arrive at the venue of a ceremony in honor of the fifth Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize laureates in Tokyo on Aug. 22, 2025. The prize is named after Japanese biologist Hideyo Noguchi, who died in Ghana in 1928 while carrying out research on yellow fever.

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Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize award ceremony

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako attend a ceremony in honor of the fifth Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize laureates in Tokyo on Aug. 22, 2025. The prize is named after Japanese biologist Hideyo Noguchi, who died in Ghana in 1928 while carrying out research on yellow fever. (Pool photo)

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Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize award ceremony

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako attend a ceremony in honor of the fifth Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize laureates in Tokyo on Aug. 22, 2025. The prize is named after Japanese biologist Hideyo Noguchi, who died in Ghana in 1928 while carrying out research on yellow fever. (Pool photo)

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Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize award ceremony

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks at a ceremony in honor of the fifth Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize laureates in Tokyo on Aug. 22, 2025. The prize is named after Japanese biologist Hideyo Noguchi, who died in Ghana in 1928 while carrying out research on yellow fever. (Pool photo)

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Made-in-Niigata PR event in New York

Hideyo Hanazumi, governor of Japan's Niigata Prefecture, speaks at an event in New York on Oct. 28, 2024, to promote made-in-Niigata food and liquor.

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UNESCO adds Japan's Sado mine site to World Heritage list+

Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi (2nd from R) celebrates in New Delhi on July 27, 2024, after UNESCO decided earlier in the day to add a gold and silver mine complex on Sado Island in the Japanese prefecture to its World Heritage list.

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UNESCO adds Japan's Sado mine site to World Heritage list+

Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi (C) celebrates in New Delhi on July 27, 2024, after UNESCO decided earlier in the day to add a gold and silver mine complex on Sado Island in the Japanese prefecture to its World Heritage list.

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Art festival in Niigata Pref.

Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi speaks during the opening ceremony for Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale in Tokamachi, Niigata Prefecture, on July 13, 2024. Artists from about 40 countries will display over 300 artworks for the art festival, which will be held through Nov. 10 on a 760-square-kilometer field straddling Tokamachi and Tsunan.

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Exhibition to promote Niigata Prefecture in Paris

Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi speaks at a reception for an exhibition promoting the Japanese prefecture held at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris on March 25, 2024. In 2023, Japan submitted a gold and silver mine complex on Sado Island in the prefecture for inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage list.

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Exhibition to promote Niigata Prefecture in Paris

Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi (L) talks about a gold and silver mine complex on Sado Island at an exhibition promoting the Japanese prefecture held at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris on March 25, 2024. In 2023, Japan submitted a gold and silver mine complex on Sado Island in the prefecture for inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage list.

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Exhibition to promote Niigata Prefecture in Paris

Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi (R) explains photo panels at an exhibition promoting the Japanese prefecture held at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris on March 25, 2024. In 2023, Japan submitted a gold and silver mine complex on Sado Island in the prefecture for inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage list.

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Japan PM Kishida in Ghana

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C) poses for a photo in front of a relief of prominent Japanese bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Accra, Ghana, on May 1, 2023. Noguchi died of yellow fever while conducting research on the viral disease in Accra in 1928.

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Japan PM Kishida in Ghana

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C) poses for a photo in front of a relief of prominent Japanese bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Accra, Ghana, on May 1, 2023. Noguchi died of yellow fever while conducting research on the viral disease in Accra in 1928.

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Ceremony to honor Hideyo Noguchi held in NY

NEW YORK, United States - A ceremony to honor the life of Japanese bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi is held on May 21, 2014, the anniversary of his death, at the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York, with the attendance of Yoshio Kano (far L), executive secretary of the recently established Hideyo Noguchi Memorial Society, and Sumio Kusaka (2nd from R), consul general of Japan in New York.

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Japan's Africa medical award

TOKYO, Japan - Peter Piot, a medical doctor from Belgium, receives the Japanese government's Hideyo Noguchi Africa award during a ceremony at a hotel in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on June 1, 2013. Piot co-discovered the Ebola virus while leading a worldwide response action against AIDS. (Pool photo)

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Japan's Africa medical award

TOKYO, Japan - Alex Godwin Coutinho, a medical doctor from Uganda, receives the Japanese government's Hideyo Noguchi Africa award during a ceremony at a hotel in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on June 1, 2013. Coutinho was recognized for his pioneering work in treating AIDS patients and preventing the spread of HIV. (Pool photo)

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Dreamliner probe

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Safety board investigator Hideyo Kosugi answers reporters' questions at Takamatsu Airport in western Japan on Jan. 17, 2013, about the main battery of an All Nippon Airways Co. Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet that was removed following an emergency landing by the plane the previous day due to smoke in the cockpit. The investigation is focusing on the main battery.

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Photographer Hori's works disclosed to media

MATSUE, Japan - Photographs taken by Japanese photographer Ichiro Hori (1879-1969), including portraits of Japanese Adm. Heihachiro Togo (L front) and Japanese bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi's wife Mary (2nd from L, front), are disclosed to the media at Matsue History Museum in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 24, 2012. The photos, kept at the home of Kosaku Sano, Hori's nephew, in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, are scheduled to be exhibited at the museum from March 20, 2012.

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Evidence in 1966 murder case

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Lawyer Hideyo Ogawa holds an item of evidence related to the 1966 murder of a family of four in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, at a press conference in Shizuoka city on Dec. 12, 2011, after prosecutors disclosed 176 items of evidence related to the case earlier in the day. Iwao Hakamada, 75, who has been convicted in the case and is on death row, is seeking a retrial.

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Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito in Ghanaian

ACCRA, GHANA - Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito (R) visits a laboratory used by Dr. Hideyo Noguchi at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana, on March 8, 2010. The Japanese bacteriologist died in Ghana in 1928 of yellow fever while conducting research into the disease.

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Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito in Ghanaian

ACCRA, GHANA - Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito (L) looks at a statue of Dr. Hideyo Noguchi at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana, where the Japanese bacteriologist died in 1928 of yellow fever while conducting research into the disease, on March 8, 2010. The Japanese crown prince is on a three-day official visit to Ghana.

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Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize banquet

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Emperor Akihito (C) delivers an address at a banquet held at a Yokohama hotel on May 28 in honor of the first Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize laureates, Prof. Miriam K. Were of Kenya and Dr. Brian Greenwood of Britain. The prize, awarded to the two recipients earlier in the day, is named after Japanese biologist Hideyo Noguchi, who died in Ghana in 1928 while carrying out research on yellow fever. (Pool photo)

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Hideyo Noguchi African Prize awarded to Were, Greenwood

YOKOHAMA, Japan - The first Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize laureates -- Prof. Miriam K. Were of Kenya (L) and Dr. Brian Greenwood of Britain -- pose for photos at a hotel in Yokoyama on May 28. The prize, which was established in July 2006, is named after Japanese biologist Hideyo Noguchi, who died in Ghana in 1928 while carrying out research on yellow fever. (Pool photo)

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Noguchi award winner continuing fight against disease in Africa

TOKYO, Japan - Miriam Were, a Kenyan medical worker and recipient of the inaugural Hideyo Noguchi Africa Award, discusses her work in an interview with Kyodo News in Nairobi on May 10.

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More funds needed for African medical award

TOKYO, Japan - A collage of then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi during his visit in May 2006 to the late Japanese biologist Hideyo Noguchi's laboratory at the University of Ghana Hospital and Noguchi's bronze statue.

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Cargill Japan president becomes head of Sapporo Beverage

TOKYO, Japan - Sapporo Holdings Ltd. said Jan. 15 that Hideyo Suzuki (photo), president of Cargill Japan Ltd., the Japanese arm of U.S. agribusiness giant Cargill Inc., has been appointed president of Sapporo Beverage Co.

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Japan unveils award to honor medical researchers working for Africa

TOKYO, Japan - Alpha Oumar Konare (L), chairman of the African Union Commission, and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi pose for photos prior to their talks in Tokyo on July 25. Koizumi later announced the establishment of an award named after Japanese scientist Hideyo Noguchi to honor medical researchers and personnel working for Africa. (Pool photo)

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Japan to honor medical researchers working for Africa

ACCRA, Ghana - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) and Ghanaian President John Kufuor are in talks in Accra on May 2. Koizumi said after the talks that Japan plans to create an award named after scientist Hideyo Noguchi to honor medical researchers and personnel working for Africa.

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Japan to honor medical researchers working for Africa

ACCRA, Ghana - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks at a press conference following his meeting with Ghanaian President John Kufuor in Accra on May 2. He said that Japan plans to create an award named after scientist Hideyo Noguchi to honor medical researchers and personnel working for Africa.

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Koizumi visits laboratory of Japanese scientist Noguchi in Ghana

ACCRA, Ghana - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi waves to people during his visit to the laboratory of Hideyo Noguchi, the Japanese scientist who died in Ghana in 1928 while conducting research on yellow fever. The laboratory in Accra is currently used as a lecture room for the medical school at the University of Ghana.