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Archive Home > 2012 > July > 30 > Japanese candidate opposed to nuclear loses vote

Japanese candidate opposed to nuclear loses vote

By Yuri Kageyama / The Bulletin
July 30, 2012

TOKYO — A candidate who ran on a rare anti-nuclear platform lost a weekend election for state governor, even as thousands of people formed “a human chain” around Japan’s parliament complex to demand the government abandon nuclear power.

The protest was the latest in a series of peaceful....

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