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Southwest Japan mayor OKs nuke plant restart

SATSUMASENDAI, Japan - Mayor Hideo Iwakiri of Satsumasendai in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, gives a press conference on Oct. 28, 2014, following his approval for the restart of Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear plant, the first to meet strict safety requirements tightened after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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Local city assembly OKs restart of nuclear plant

SATSUMASENDAI, Japan - Hideo Iwakiri (C), the mayor of Satsumasendai in Kagoshima Prefecture, speaks at a session of the city assembly on Oct. 28, 2014, after it approved restarting the two-reactor Sendai nuclear power plant in the southwestern Japanese city. The plant in September became the first nuclear facility to meet Japan's stricter safety requirements following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in northeastern Japan.

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METI document on Sendai plant handed to mayor

SATSUMASENDAI, Japan - Takayuki Ueda (L), head of the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, hands a document under the name of Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yuko Obuchi on the government's policy to restart the Sendai nuclear power plant in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, to Satsumasendai Mayor Hideo Iwakiri at the city hall on Sept. 12, 2014.

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Popular shaved ice in Miyazaki, Japan

Store manager Munekazu Iwakiri pours seven kinds of syrup on "rainbow shaved ice" at his udon noodle store in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on July 30, 2021. (

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Southern Japan's Miyazaki replaces overgrown palm trees lining highway

Workers remove one of the Washingtonia palm trees lining the medial strip of a national highway in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 12, 2015, to replace them with young ones as the trees have grown too tall to prune and shape. The late local tourism developer Shotaro Iwakiri started planting the palm trees in 1964 to create a warm southern atmosphere. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kyushu Electric Power eyes extended operation of 2 restarted reactors

Kyushu Electric Power Co. President Michiaki Uriu (R) visits Satsumasendai Mayor Hideo Iwakiri in the southwestern Japanese city on Nov. 18, 2015. Uriu told reporters following the meeting that the company hopes to apply for the extension of the operation of its two recently reactivated nuclear power reactors, some 30 years since their launch, beyond their current 40-year life. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Southwest Japan mayor OKs nuke plant restart

SATSUMASENDAI, Japan - Mayor Hideo Iwakiri of Satsumasendai in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, gives a press conference on Oct. 28, 2014, following his approval for the restart of Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear plant, the first to meet strict safety requirements tightened after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. (Kyodo)

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Local city assembly OKs restart of nuclear plant

SATSUMASENDAI, Japan - Hideo Iwakiri (C), the mayor of Satsumasendai in Kagoshima Prefecture, speaks at a session of the city assembly on Oct. 28, 2014, after it approved restarting the two-reactor Sendai nuclear power plant in the southwestern Japanese city. The plant in September became the first nuclear facility to meet Japan's stricter safety requirements following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in northeastern Japan. (Kyodo)