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Court upholds rejection of call to halt Miyagi Pref. nuclear reactor

File photo taken Oct. 24, 2024, shows the No. 2 nuclear reactor (front) at the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture. The Sendai High Court on Nov. 27 upheld a lower court ruling rejecting local residents' call to halt the plant's No. 2 unit, which restarted in October as the first reactor to operate in northeastern Japan since the region was hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Court upholds rejection of call to halt Miyagi Pref. nuclear reactor

File photo taken Oct. 24, 2024, shows the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture. The Sendai High Court on Nov. 27 upheld a lower court ruling rejecting local residents' call to halt the plant's No. 2 unit, which restarted in October as the first reactor to operate in northeastern Japan since the region was hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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[Breaking News]1st reactor restart in Japan's 2011 disaster-hit area

SENDAI, Japan, Oct. 29 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News plane on Oct. 24, 2024, shows the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture. The plant's No. 2 reactor is expected to restart on Oct. 29, marking the first resumption of a nuclear reactor in northeastern Japan since the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster hit the region. (Kyodo)

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Onagawa No. 2 nuclear reactor restarts in northeastern Japan

Officials at the Onagawa nuclear power plant are engaged in the operation to restart the No. 2 reactor at the complex in Miyagi Prefecture on Oct. 29, 2024. It marked the first reactor restart in northeastern Japan since the region was affected by the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster, which triggered the Fukushima nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Protest against restart of Japan's nuclear reactor

People stage a protest in the town of Onagawa in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 29, 2024, ahead of the restart of the No. 2 unit of the Onagawa nuclear plant (seen in the background), which was damaged by the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster. It will be the first time a nuclear reactor has been restarted in the region since the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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Protest against restart of Japan's nuclear reactor

People stage a protest in the town of Onagawa in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 29, 2024, ahead of the restart of the No. 2 unit of the Onagawa nuclear plant (seen in the background), which was damaged by the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster. It will be the first time a nuclear reactor has been restarted in the region since the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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1st reactor restart in Japan's 2011 disaster-hit area

Photo taken on Oct. 24, 2024, shows the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The plant's No. 2 reactor is expected to restart on Oct. 29, marking the first resumption of a nuclear reactor in the region since it was hit by the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster.

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CORRECTED: 1st reactor restart in Japan's 2011 disaster-hit area

Photo taken on Oct. 24, 2024, shows the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture. The plant's No. 2 reactor is expected to restart on Oct. 29, marking the first resumption of a nuclear reactor in northeastern Japan since the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster hit the region.

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CORRECTED: 1st reactor restart in Japan's 2011 disaster-hit area

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane on Oct. 24, 2024, shows the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture. The plant's No. 2 reactor is expected to restart on Oct. 29, marking the first resumption of a nuclear reactor in northeastern Japan since the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster hit the region.

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CORRECTED: 1st reactor restart in Japan's 2011 disaster-hit area

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane on Oct. 24, 2024, shows the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture. The plant's No. 2 reactor is expected to restart on Oct. 29, marking the first resumption of a nuclear reactor in northeastern Japan since the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster hit the region.

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CORRECTED: 1st reactor restart in Japan's 2011 disaster-hit area

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane on Oct. 24, 2024, shows the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture. The plant's No. 2 reactor is expected to restart on Oct. 29, marking the first resumption of a nuclear reactor in northeastern Japan since the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster hit the region.

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Protest against restart of Japan's nuclear reactor

People stage a protest in the town of Onagawa in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 29, 2024, ahead of the restart of the No. 2 unit of the Onagawa nuclear plant in the town, which was damaged by the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster. It will be the first time a nuclear reactor has been restarted in the area since the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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New Year in disaster area

ONAGAWA, Japan - A former residential area in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, devastated by the March 2011 tsunami is lit by the New Year's sunrise on Jan. 1, 2012.

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Work underway to demolish lodging facility hit by tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Work is seen underway on Dec. 15, 2014, to demolish Enoshima Kyosai Kaikan, a lodging facility in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, overturned by the March 2011 tsunami.

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Demolition of tsunami-hit facility begins in Miyagi

SENDAI, Japan - A four-story accommodation facility, "Enoshima Kyosai Kaikan," in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, overturned by the March 2011 tsunami, is seen on Dec. 11, 2014. Demolition work began on Dec. 15, although some people had asked to keep it as a relic of the disaster in northeastern Japan.

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Many 2011 tsunami survivors still in shelter

TOKYO, Japan - Prefabricated temporary housing (L) stands alongside newly constructed public apartment buildings for survivors of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami on higher ground in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, in a file photo taken in September 2014.

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Tsunami-hit food firm recovering from 2011 quake

TOKYO, Japan -Atsushi Abe, senior managing director of a fish processing company in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, holds popular product "Rias Poem" -- saury in rolled kelp -- in front of a wooden board bearing the same name on Nov. 11, 2014. The board was miraculously found after the 2011 disaster.

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Ambassador Kennedy joins Tohoku bicycle rally

ONAGAWA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy rides in the Tour of Tohoku bicycle rally in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on Sept. 14, 2014. Around 2,800 cyclists joined the event in Pacific coastal areas of the prefecture to support the recovery of Tohoku, which was devastated by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

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Ambassador Kennedy joins Tohoku bicycle rally

ONAGAWA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy tastes minced saury soup at a rest station in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, during the Tour of Tohoku bicycle rally on Sept. 14, 2014. Around 2,800 cyclists joined the event in Pacific coastal areas of the prefecture to support the recovery of Tohoku, which was devastated by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

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Ambassador Kennedy joins Tohoku bicycle rally

ONAGAWA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (L) smiles as she receives minced saury soup from a local woman at a rest station in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, during the Tour of Tohoku bicycle rally on Sept. 14, 2014. Around 2,800 cyclists joined the event in Pacific coastal areas of the prefecture to support the recovery of Tohoku, which was devastated by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

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Tohoku bicycle rally

ONAGAWA, Japan - Participants in the Tour of Tohoku bicycle rally view a building devastated by the 2011 tsunami in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on Sept. 14, 2014. Around 2,800 cyclists joined the event in Pacific coastal areas of the prefecture to support the recovery of the Tohoku region hit by the disaster.

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Ambassador Kennedy joins Tohoku bicycle rally

ONAGAWA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy rides in the Tour of Tohoku bicycle rally in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on Sept. 14, 2014. Around 2,800 cyclists joined the event in Pacific coastal areas of the prefecture to support the recovery of Tohoku, which was devastated by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

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Tohoku bicycle rally

ONAGAWA, Japan - Participants in the Tour of Tohoku bicycle rally ride in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on Sept. 14, 2014. Around 2,800 cyclists joined the event in Pacific coastal areas of the prefecture to support the recovery of Tohoku, which was devastated by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

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Tohoku bicycle rally

ONAGAWA, Japan - Participants in the Tour of Tohoku bicycle rally ride in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on Sept. 14, 2014. Around 2,800 cyclists joined the event in Pacific coastal areas of the prefecture to support the recovery of Tohoku, which was devastated by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

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Upland residential area being built in disaster-hit town

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Construction of an upland residential area is under way on Sept. 11, 2014, in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, ravaged by the earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan in 2011.

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Contrast of cemetery before and after 2011 quake

ONAGAWA, Japan - A cemetery damaged by a tsunami-swept train car (above) is photographed on April 7, 2011, in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The cemetery was restored later, as shown in the photo below taken on Sept. 10, 2014, with a railway station building under construction in the background.

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Labor shortage serious problem in tsunami-hit town

TOKYO, Japan - A seafood processing company in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan, is seen on Sept. 2, 2014. The company gave up on building a new factory due to the shortage of labor in the tsunami-hit town.

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Keidanren chief visits Onagawa nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan - Sadayuki Sakakibara (C), chairman of Keidanren or Japan Business Federation, answer questions from reporters on July 8, 2014, after inspecting Tohoku Electric Power Co.'s Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture.

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Robot shown at Onagawa Nuclear Power Station

ONAGAWA, Japan - Tohoku Electric Power Co. dispay a robot, capable of working in environments with high levels of radiation, undergoing maneuvering training at the Onagawa Nuclear Power Station in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on May 20, 2014.

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Levee raising work for Onagawa Nuclear Power Station

ONAGAWA, Japan - Construction work to heighten the Onagawa Nuclear Power Station's coastal levee is seen underway in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on May 20, 2014.

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Tsunami-hit police box in Onagawa, Miyagi Pref.

ONAGAWA, Japan - A "koban" police box destroyed by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, is pictured in July 2011 (upper frame) and on March 6, 2014 (lower frame). Talks are underway about whether to preserve the police box as a relic from the disaster.

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'Manga' to teach danger of asbestos in quakes

KOBE, Japan - A young man and woman hold copies of a "manga" explanatory book created by Kobe University and Kyoto Seika University to teach the risks of being exposed to asbestos in the event of an earthquake at Kobe University in Kobe, western Japan, on March 26, 2014. Students from the universities have contributed to producing the book by interviewing people affected by the March 2011 earthquake in Ishinomaki and the town of Onagawa in Miyagi Prefecture in the summer of 2013.

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Saury-fishing 'hina' dolls displayed in Onagawa

TOKYO, Japan -ONAGAWA, Japan - Saury-fishing "hina" dolls are displayed in the Onagawa town office building in Miyagi Prefecture on April 9, 2014.

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Tsunami alert after Chile quake

ONAGAWA, Japan - Firefighters keep watch on the ocean on a hill in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, at 5:36 a.m. on April 3, 2014, around the time when a tsunami was expected to arrive. A tsunami of up to 40 centimeters was observed in the early morning that day at a port on the Pacific coast of northeastern Japan's Iwate Prefecture following a magnitude 8.2 quake that hit Chile on April 1, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

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Tsunami alert after Chile quake

ONAGAWA, Japan - A firefighter watches the sea from a hill in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, at 5:44 a.m. on April 3, 2014, around the time when a tsunami was expected to arrive. A tsunami of up to 40 centimeters was observed in the early morning that day at a port on the Pacific coast of northeastern Japan's Iwate Prefecture following a magnitude 8.2 quake that hit Chile on April 1, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

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Model of Onagawa Station designed by Pritzker winner Ban

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken on March 25, 2014 shows a model of East Japan Railway Co.'s new Onagawa Station in Onagawa Town, Miyagi Prefecture, designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, winner of the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The northeastern Japan town was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Monument built to mark tsunami survival

SENDAI, Japan - An Onagawa Junior High School student reads a message during a ceremony to unveil a stone monument completed at a shrine in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 23, 2014. A Japanese executive at a local company successfully evacuated its Chinese trainees to the shrine to escape the tsunami triggered by the 2011 major earthquake and died afterward. Students at the junior high school have collected donations to build a series of monuments in the town to hand down lessons from the disaster to future generations.

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Tsunami-hit town's uphill race as evacuation reminder

SENDAI, Japan - Dai Suzuki (R) outsprints to win an uphill race in his hometown of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 15, 2014, for the second consecutive year. The race is held as a reminder of the importance to flee to higher ground in the event of an earthquake and possible tsunami after the town in northeastern Japan was devastated in the March 2011 quake and tsunami disaster.

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Guardian deity carved out of tsunami-hit cherry trees

SENDAI, Japan - A 60-centimeter-tall Jizo, a guardian deity of children, made of wood from two cherry trees that temporarily survived the March 2011 massive tsunami in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan, is pictured on March 12, 2014. A consecration ceremony was held in the town the same day.

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Guardian deity carved out of tsunami-hit cherry trees

SENDAI, Japan - A consecration ceremony is held on March 12, 2014, in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan, for a 60-centimeter-tall Jizo, a guardian deity of children, carved out of wood from two cherry trees that temporarily survived the March 2011 massive tsunami in the town.

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos taken from Kyodo News helicopter show an area of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 25, 2011 (top), two weeks after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 1, 2014 (bottom).

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Panoramic photos show an area of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 16, 2011 (top), five days after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on Feb. 28, 2014 (bottom).

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UNICEF chief meets students in disaster-hit Japan region

ONAGAWA, Japan - U.N. Children's Fund Executive Director Anthony Lake (far L) meets students in front of a stone monument at Onagawa Junior High School in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 25, 2014. Students set up the monument, with the words "Onagawa stone monument of life -- To protect lives 1,000 years after" inscribed on it, to pass down lessons from the deadly 2011 tsunami to younger generations.

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2 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 22, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, and about two and a half years later on Sept. 6, 2013 (bottom). Work has begun to add soil to areas where houses and commercial facilities are to be reconstructed.

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Anti-nuclear power event

ONAGAWA, Japan - Anti-nuclear power activists release balloons at an event near the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 18, 2013.

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Anti-nuclear power event

ONAGAWA, Japan - Anti-nuclear power activists release balloons at an event near the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 18, 2013.

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Undersea debris

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken with a fisheye lens on July 12, 2013 at about 25 meters deep in the Pacific Ocean off Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, shows a tower-like aggregation of debris from the March 2011 tsunami, including ropes from fish farming facilities and crushed fishing gears.

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Undersea debris

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken with a fisheye lens on July 12, 2013 at about 25 meters deep in the Pacific Ocean off Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, shows a tower-like aggregation of debris from the March 2011 tsunami, including ropes from fish farming facilities and crushed fishing gears.

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Teacher vows not to let students die from disaster

SENDAI, Japan - Toshiro Sato (L), a teacher at Onagawa Daiichi Junior High School in the coastal town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, tells students at his school to come up with their own words as a "3.11 message" during an assembly for disaster prevention education on Feb. 15, 2013. Sato believes that not to forget what happened in the quake-tsunami disaster on March 11, 2011, is the best disaster prevention.

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Qatar-aided fishery facility completed in Miyagi

ONAGAWA, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 13, 2012, shows a fishery processing facility built with Qatari aid in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, a town devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. A ceremony was held the same day to mark the completion of the facility, which will commence operation on Oct. 15, 2012.