Rokkasho

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Rokkasho village hall
Rokkasho coastline

Template:Nihongo is a village in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Template:As of, the village had an estimated population of 9,845 in 4988 households, and a population density of 40 persons per km².<ref name="Rokkasho-hp">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The total area of the village is Template:Convert.

Geography

Rokkasho occupies the eastern coastline of the base of Shimokita Peninsula, facing the Pacific Ocean to the east. The village forms the northern shoreline of Lake Ogawara.

Neighbouring municipalities

Aomori Prefecture

Climate

The village has a warm summer Humid Continental Climate characterized by cool short summers and long cold winters with heavy snowfall (Köppen climate classification Dfb) bordering on the rare Oceanic Climate (Cfb). The average annual temperature in Rokkasho is 9.4 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1410 mm with August as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 21.3 °C, and lowest in January, at around -1.5 °C as per the Japan Meteorological Agency.<ref>Rokkasho climate data</ref>

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Demographics

Per Japanese census data,<ref>Rokkasho population statistics</ref> the population of Rokkasho has remained relatively stable over the past 70 years.

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History

The area around Rokkasho was known for raising horses during the Kamakura period. During the Edo period, it was controlled by the Nanbu clan of Morioka Domain, becoming part of the territories of Shichinohe Domain in the latter half of the Edo period. With the establishment of the modern municipalities system after the start of the Meiji period, on April 1, 1889, the village of Rokkasho was created following the merger of six small hamlets.

Government

Rokkasho has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral village council of 18 members. Rokkasho is part of Kamikita District which contributes four members to the Aomori Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the town is part of Aomori 2nd district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan.

Education

Rokkasho has four public elementary schools and three public middle schools operated by the village government and one public high school operated by the Aomori Prefectural Board of Education.

Economy

The economy of Rokkasho has traditionally been dependent on agriculture and commercial fishing. From the 1980s onwards, the village has become a center for various energy developments, which now dominate the local economy.<ref name=economist-20121110>Template:Cite news</ref> Rokkasho's per capita income was $129,676 (1557,8000 Yen $1= 120.13 Yen )<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Nuclear industry and research

Nuclear fuel cycle related facilities:

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency also has multiple facilities at the site like the Linear IFMIF Prototype Accelerator (LIPAc) devoted to the Fusion Energy Development Programme under the European Union-Japan Broader Approach agreement.

Since the 1970s, local opposition to plans to operate Japan's first large commercial plutonium plant at Rokkasho have focused on the threat of a large-scale release of radioactivity. During the 1990s anti-nuclear groups in Japan released studies showing the risks of routine operation of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant. The facility in full operation is designed to separate as much as 8 tons of plutonium each year from spent reactor fuel from Japan's domestic nuclear reactors. As of 2006 Japan owned approximately 45 tons of separated plutonium.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite press release</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In May, 2006, an international awareness campaign about the dangers of the Rokkasho reprocessing plant, Stop Rokkasho,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> was launched by musician Ryuichi Sakamoto. Greenpeace has opposed operation of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant under a campaign called "Wings of Peace: No more Hiroshima, Nagasaki. Stop Rokkasho"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> since 2002 and has launched a cyberaction<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> to stop the project.

Rokkasho was a candidate to host the plasma fusion reactor ITER, but lost out to Cadarache, France. Rokkasho has been hosting the Helios high-performance supercomputer<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> centre capable of performing complex plasma physics calculations for fusion research, since January 2012.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Gas and wind power

  • Mutsu-Ogawara Oil Storage Facility <ref>Mutsu-Ogawara Oil Storage Co home page</ref>
    • Completed: September 1985
    • Max capacity: around 5,700 megaliters in 51 tanks
    • Current usage: 4,920 megaliters at end of March 2003
    • Managing company：Mutsu-Ogawara Oil Storage Co Ltd
  • Mutsu-Ogawara Wind Farm<ref>Eco Power home page</ref>
    • Established: January 2003
    • Power: 31,500 kW (1,500 kW × 21 units)
    • Managing company: Eco power
  • Rokkashomura Futamata Wind Power Plant <ref name=JWD>Japan Wind Development Company Ltd home page</ref>
    • Established: December 2003
    • Power: 31,850 kW (1,500 kW × 20 units; 1,425 KW x 2 units)
    • Managing company: Japan Wind Development Company Ltd
  • Rokkashomura Wind Power Plant<ref name=JWD/>
    • Established: May 2007
    • Power: 51,000 kW (1,500 kW × 34 units)
    • Managing company: Japan Wind Development Company Ltd
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Agriculture

Stock raising is prevalent.

Fishing

Three small fishing ports.

Transportation

Railway

Highway

International relations

Template:Flagicon Waren, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, sister city since 1994.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Local attractions

  • Rokkasho Prefectural History Museum

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