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Aomori gubernatorial election

AOMORI, Japan - Aomori Gov. Shingo Mimura receives a bouquet in Aomori City on June 5, 2011, as projections show he is set to be reelected to his third four-year term in a gubernatorial election by defeating two challengers.

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Incumbent Mimura wins Aomori gubernatorial election

AOMORI, Japan - Incumbent Aomori Gov. Shingo Mimura (C), surrounded by supporters, celebrates his victory in the gubernatorial election at his campaign office in the city of Aomori on June 3. Mimura ran in the election as an independent candidate backed by the Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito party.

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Local gov't gives nod to safety plan for nuclear processing plant

AOMORI, Japan - Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata (L) receives a draft agreement from Rokkasho Village Mayor Kenji Fukukawa (right fore) on trial operations by the company of Japan's first spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the village as Aomori Prefecture Governor Shingo Mimura (R back) witnesses at the prefectural government office on March 28.

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Local gov't gives nod to safety plan for nuclear processing plant

AOMORI, Japan - Aomori Governor Shingo Mimura speaks at a press conference on March 28 that Japan's first plant to extract plutonium and uranium from spent nuclear fuel for reprocessing has cleared the last hurdle for a test run. He said the village of Rokkasho in the prefecture, which hosts the plant, will sign the necessary safety agreement for trial operations with plant operator Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.

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Aomori gov. agrees to host nuclear fuel storage facility

AOMORI, Japan - Aomori Gov. Shingo Mimura speaks at a press conference at his office on Oct. 19 on his government's acceptance of a plan by two energy companies to build a spent nuclear fuel storage facility in the prefecture. Under the plan, Tokyo Electric Power Co. and Japan Atomic Power Co. will build a two-wing facility in the city of Mutsu in the northeastern Japan prefecture to temporarily keep up to 5,000 tons of spent fuel.

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Japan better choice for ITER given Asian energy demand: governor

AOMORI, Japan - Aomori Gov. Shingo Mimura speaks at his office in Aomori on Dec. 8. As governor of a prefecture aspiring to host a multibillion-dollar international nuclear energy project, he said Aomori is a better choice than a European location given a surge in energy demand and rapid economic growth in Asia. ''I believe it is of international significance to host the ITER in Asia, whose population and economy has posted sharp expansion,'' he said.

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(1)Rokkasho plant reaches safety accord to start uranium tests

AOMORI, Japan - Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd., the operator of the new Rokkasho nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Aomori Prefecture, concluded a safety agreement with the local and prefectural governments Nov. 22. Aomori Gov. Shingo Mimura (C) and other representatives signed the agreement at an Aomori hotel.

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Mimura elected Aomori governor

AOMORI, Japan - Shingo Mimura, a former lower house member backed by the dominant Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its two coalition partners, smiles after winning the Aomori gubernatorial election June 29.

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(1)Rokkasho plant reaches safety accord to start uranium tests

AOMORI, Japan - Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd., the operator of the new Rokkasho nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Aomori Prefecture, concluded a safety agreement with the local and prefectural governments Nov. 22. Aomori Gov. Shingo Mimura (C) and other representatives signed the agreement at an Aomori hotel. (Kyodo)

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Japan better choice for ITER given Asian energy demand: governor

AOMORI, Japan - Aomori Gov. Shingo Mimura speaks at his office in Aomori on Dec. 8. As governor of a prefecture aspiring to host a multibillion-dollar international nuclear energy project, he said Aomori is a better choice than a European location given a surge in energy demand and rapid economic growth in Asia. ''I believe it is of international significance to host the ITER in Asia, whose population and economy has posted sharp expansion,'' he said. (Kyodo)

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Aomori gov. agrees to host nuclear fuel storage facility

AOMORI, Japan - Aomori Gov. Shingo Mimura speaks at a press conference at his office on Oct. 19 on his government's acceptance of a plan by two energy companies to build a spent nuclear fuel storage facility in the prefecture. Under the plan, Tokyo Electric Power Co. and Japan Atomic Power Co. will build a two-wing facility in the city of Mutsu in the northeastern Japan prefecture to temporarily keep up to 5,000 tons of spent fuel. (Kyodo)

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Local gov't gives nod to safety plan for nuclear processing plan

AOMORI, Japan - Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata (L) receives a draft agreement from Rokkasho Village Mayor Kenji Fukukawa (right fore) on trial operations by the company of Japan's first spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the village as Aomori Prefecture Governor Shingo Mimura (R back) witnesses at the prefectural government office on March 28. (Kyodo)

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Incumbent Mimura wins Aomori gubernatorial election

AOMORI, Japan - Incumbent Aomori Gov. Shingo Mimura (C), surrounded by supporters, celebrates his victory in the gubernatorial election at his campaign office in the city of Aomori on June 3. Mimura ran in the election as an independent candidate backed by the Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito party. (Kyodo)

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Incumbent secures 4th term as Aomori governor

Holding a bouquet, Shingo Mimura, governor of Japan's northeastern prefecture of Aomori, expresses joy in the prefectural capital city of Aomori as he secures a fourth term in the gubernatorial election on June 7, 2015, beating a doctor who challenged him. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Construction minister receives request from 4 governors

Reconstruction Minister Wataru Takeshita (C) receives a letter of request from four governors -- (from L) Fukushima Gov. Masao Uchibori, Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai, Iwate Gov. Takuya Tasso, and Aomori Gov. Shingo Mimura -- asking to extend the intensive reconstruction period for swift recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011, at the Reconstruction Agency in Tokyo on April 23, 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Local gov't gives nod to safety plan for nuclear processing plan

AOMORI, Japan - Aomori Governor Shingo Mimura speaks at a press conference on March 28 that Japan's first plant to extract plutonium and uranium from spent nuclear fuel for reprocessing has cleared the last hurdle for a test run. He said the village of Rokkasho in the prefecture, which hosts the plant, will sign the necessary safety agreement for trial operations with plant operator Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (Kyodo)

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Aomori gubernatorial election

AOMORI, Japan - Aomori Gov. Shingo Mimura receives a bouquet in Aomori City on June 5, 2011, as projections show he is set to be reelected to his third four-year term in a gubernatorial election by defeating two challengers. (Kyodo)

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Fishermen redress over tanks drop

Aomori Gov. Shingo Mimura (R) and Koji Ebina, mayor of Tohoku in the northeastern Japan prefecture, meet the press after holding talks with Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera in Misawa in the prefecture on Feb. 24, 2018, following the recent dumping of fuel tanks by a U.S. fighter jet into a lake. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bird flu strain detected in ducks in Aomori

Aomori Gov. Shingo Mimura (C) attends a taskforce meeting at the prefectural office in the northeastern Japan on Nov. 28, 2016, after ducks at a farm tested positive for the H5 bird flu strain in preliminary testing. The local authorities were culling about 16,500 birds. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mimura elected Aomori governor

AOMORI, Japan - Shingo Mimura, a former lower house member backed by the dominant Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its two coalition partners, smiles after winning the Aomori gubernatorial election June 29. (Kyodo)