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{{Infobox settlement

| name = Rokkasho
| native_name = {{nobold|{{lang|ja|六ヶ所村}}}}
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| settlement_type = [[Villages of Japan|Village]]

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| subdivision_name1 = [[Tōhoku region|Tōhoku]]
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| subdivision_name2 = [[Aomori Prefecture|Aomori]]
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| subdivision_name3 = [[Kamikita District, Aomori|Kamikita]]

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[[File:Rokkasho village hall, Aomori prefecture, Japan.jpg|right|thumb|270px|Rokkasho village hall]]
[[File:A beach in Japan (Shimokita Peninsula).jpg|right|thumb|270px|Rokkasho coastline]]

{{Nihongo| '''Rokkasho'''|六ヶ所村|Rokkasho-mura}} is a [[List of villages in Japan|village]] in [[Aomori Prefecture]], [[Japan]]. {{As of|2023|03|01}}, 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">{{cite web |url=https://www.rokkasho.jp/index.cfm/1,html|title= Rokkasho village official statistics|location= Japan|language= ja}}</ref> The total area of the village is {{convert|252.68|km²|2|abbr=out}}.

==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
*[[Misawa, Aomori|Misawa]]
*[[Shimokita District, Aomori|Shimokita District]]
**[[Higashidōri, Aomori|Higashidōri]]
*[[Kamikita District, Aomori|Kamikita District]]
**[[Noheji, Aomori|Noheji]]
**[[Tōhoku, Aomori|Tōhoku]]
**[[Yokohama, Aomori|Yokohama]]

===Climate===
The village has a warm summer [[Humid continental climate|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>[http://en.climate-data.org/location/472556/ Rokkasho climate data]</ref>

{{Weather box
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|location = Rokkasho (1991−2020 normals, extremes 1982−present)
|Jan record high C = 10.9
|Feb record high C = 16.6
|Mar record high C = 20.6
|Apr record high C = 29.1
|May record high C = 30.3
|Jun record high C = 34.1
|Jul record high C = 34.2
|Aug record high C = 34.4
|Sep record high C = 33.7
|Oct record high C = 28.6
|Nov record high C = 23.7
|Dec record high C = 18.2
|Jan record low C = -12.1
|Feb record low C = -12.6
|Mar record low C = -10.9
|Apr record low C = -5.3
|May record low C = 0.5
|Jun record low C = 3.7
|Jul record low C = 8.9
|Aug record low C = 9.8
|Sep record low C = 4.8
|Oct record low C = -0.8
|Nov record low C = -7.8
|Dec record low C = -11.8
|Jan high C = 1.2
|Feb high C = 1.9
|Mar high C = 5.7
|Apr high C = 12.3
|May high C = 17.2
|Jun high C = 19.9
|Jul high C = 23.4
|Aug high C = 25.3
|Sep high C = 22.7
|Oct high C = 17.2
|Nov high C = 10.5
|Dec high C = 3.8
|Jan mean C = -1.5
|Feb mean C = -1.2
|Mar mean C = 1.9
|Apr mean C = 7.3
|May mean C = 12.1
|Jun mean C = 15.4
|Jul mean C = 19.4
|Aug mean C = 21.3
|Sep mean C = 18.4
|Oct mean C = 12.6
|Nov mean C = 6.5
|Dec mean C = 0.8
|Jan low C = -4.4
|Feb low C = -4.4
|Mar low C = -1.9
|Apr low C = 2.8
|May low C = 7.9
|Jun low C = 12.0
|Jul low C = 16.5
|Aug low C = 18.3
|Sep low C = 14.8
|Oct low C = 8.2
|Nov low C = 2.6
|Dec low C = -2.2
|precipitation colour = green
|Jan precipitation mm = 106.4
|Feb precipitation mm = 81.0
|Mar precipitation mm = 74.2
|Apr precipitation mm = 68.4
|May precipitation mm = 93.8
|Jun precipitation mm = 108.4
|Jul precipitation mm = 151.4
|Aug precipitation mm = 176.8
|Sep precipitation mm = 169.8
|Oct precipitation mm = 130.6
|Nov precipitation mm = 105.0
|Dec precipitation mm = 125.4
|year precipitation mm = 1410.6
|unit precipitation days = 1.0 mm
|Jan precipitation days = 19.6
|Feb precipitation days = 15.9
|Mar precipitation days = 13.5
|Apr precipitation days = 10.6
|May precipitation days = 10.8
|Jun precipitation days = 10.1
|Jul precipitation days = 12.2
|Aug precipitation days = 12.4
|Sep precipitation days = 11.7
|Oct precipitation days = 12.4
|Nov precipitation days = 15.2
|Dec precipitation days = 19.3
|Jan sun = 70.7
|Feb sun = 90.8
|Mar sun = 159.4
|Apr sun = 194.6
|May sun = 201.4
|Jun sun = 161.3
|Jul sun = 131.9
|Aug sun = 149.7
|Sep sun = 158.1
|Oct sun = 158.6
|Nov sun = 106.3
|Dec sun = 70.2
|year sun = 1645.6
|source 1 = [[Japan Meteorological Agency]]<ref>{{cite web
| url = https://www.data.jma.go.jp/obd/stats/etrn/view/rank_a.php?prec_no=31&block_no=1027&year=&month=&day=&view=h0
|script-title=ja:観測史上1～10位の値（年間を通じての値）
| publisher = [[Japan Meteorological Agency|JMA]]
| access-date = March 5, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
| url = https://www.data.jma.go.jp/obd/stats/etrn/view/nml_amd_ym.php?prec_no=31&block_no=1027&year=&month=&day=&view=h0
|script-title=ja:気象庁 / 平年値（年・月ごとの値）
| publisher = [[Japan Meteorological Agency|JMA]]
| access-date = March 5, 2022}}</ref>}}

==Demographics==
Per Japanese census data,<ref>[https://www.citypopulation.de/php/japan-aomori.php Rokkasho population statistics]</ref> the population of Rokkasho has remained relatively stable over the past 70 years.

{{Historical populations
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| 1920 | 5,802
| 1930 | 6,554
| 1940 | 7,977
| 1950 | 10,702
| 1960 | 13,523
| 1970 | 11,749
| 1980 | 11,104
| 1990 | 10,071
| 2000 | 11,849
| 2010 | 11,095
| 2020 | 10,367
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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, Aomori|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 [[House of Representatives of Japan|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>{{cite news |url=https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21566018-governments-fudge-its-nuclear-future-remains-unconvincing-rokkasho-and-hard-place |title=Rokkasho and a hard place |newspaper=The Economist |date=10 November 2012 |accessdate=4 May 2015}}</ref> Rokkasho's per capita income was $129,676 (1557,8000 Yen $1= 120.13 Yen )<ref>{{cite news |url=https://mainichi.jp/articles/20170331/ddl/k02/020/190000c |title=県民平均所得、六ケ所村９年連続トップ全体、前年度比０．１％増１４年度／青森 |newspaper=毎日新聞 |date=31 March 2017 |accessdate=22 August 2018}}</ref>

===Nuclear industry and research ===
Nuclear fuel cycle related facilities:

* [[Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited]] headquarters
* The [[Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant]] (currently under test operation)
* A [[uranium enrichment]] plant and [[plutonium]] reprocessing plant.
* A [[MOX fuel]] fabrication facility with an 800-ton per year capacity when completed
* A low level [[nuclear waste storage]] facility
* A high level nuclear waste temporary storage and monitoring facility

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 movement|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>{{cite web |url=http://www.greenaction-japan.org/modules/english0/index.php?id=6 |title=What is Reprocessing? |publisher=[[Green Action]] |accessdate=23 March 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724001313/http://www.greenaction-japan.org/modules/english0/index.php?id=6 |archivedate=24 July 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.greenpeace.or.jp/press/2002/eng/20021122_html |title=ROKKASHO-MURA TO BE WORLD'S LARGEST SOURCE OF RADIOACTIVE KRYPTON GREENPEACE CALLS FOR FULL DISCLOSURE |date=22 November 2002 |publisher=[[Greenpeace|Greenpeace Japan]] |accessdate=23 March 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720045651/http://www.greenpeace.or.jp/press/2002/eng/20021122_html |archivedate=20 July 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/publications/reports/planning-for-failure-internat/ |title=Planning for failure: International nuclear safeguards and the Rokkasho-mura reprocessing plant |last1= Barnaby |first1=Frank |last2= Burnie |first2=Shaun |date=12 November 2002 |format=[[Portable Document Format|PDF]] |publisher=[[Greenpeace]] |accessdate=23 March 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://cnic.jp/english/topics/cycle/rokkasho/index.html |title=Rokkasho and Japan's Nuclear Fuel Cycle Policy |publisher=[[Nuclear power in Japan#Citizens' Nuclear Information Center|Citizens' Nuclear Information Center]] |accessdate=23 March 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=http://japanfocus.org/-Frank-Barnabie/1931 |title=Thinking the Unthinkable: Japanese nuclear power and proliferation in East Asia |last1= Barnabie |first1=Frank |last2= Burnie |first2=Shaun |date= 8 September 2005 |journal=The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus |accessdate=23 March 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.wmdinsights.org/I2/EA1_Rokkashos.htm |title=Japanese, South Korean Plutonium Plants Raise Security Concerns in Region |date=February 2006 |journal=WMD Insights |accessdate=23 March 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928043314/http://www.wmdinsights.org/I2/EA1_Rokkashos.htm |archivedate=28 September 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/03/21/japan-rokkasho-nuclear-reprocessing-plant-fuels-debate/ |title= Japan: Rokkasho nuclear reprocessing plant fuels debate |last1= Salzberg |first1=Chris |date=21 March 2008 |publisher=[[Global Voices Online]] |accessdate=23 March 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/japans-nuclear-waste-will-spill-from-new-plants-chimney/2008/04/25/1208743246473.html |title=Japan's nuclear waste will spill from new plant's chimney |last1= Norrie |first1=Justin |date= 26 April 2008 |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |accessdate=23 March 2011}}</ref>

In May, 2006, an international awareness campaign about the dangers of the Rokkasho reprocessing plant, [[Stop Rokkasho]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://stop-rokkasho.org/ |title=stop-rokkasho.org |publisher=[[Stop Rokkasho]] |accessdate=23 March 2011}}</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>{{cite web |url=http://www.greenpeace.or.jp/campaign/nuclear/hiroshima/slide/index_en_html |title=Wings of Peace: No more Hiroshima, Nagasaki. Stop Rokkasho |publisher=[[Greenpeace|Greenpeace Japan]] |accessdate=23 March 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722121200/http://www.greenpeace.or.jp/campaign/nuclear/hiroshima/slide/index_en_html |archivedate=22 July 2011 }}</ref> since 2002 and has launched a [[cyberaction]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.greenpeace.or.jp/cyberaction/npt/index_en_html |title=No more Hiroshima Nagasaki Stop the plutonium production plant at Rokkasho! |publisher=[[Greenpeace|Greenpeace Japan]] |accessdate=23 March 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121030122702/http://www.greenpeace.or.jp/cyberaction/npt/index_en_html |archivedate=30 October 2012 }}</ref> to stop the project.

Rokkasho was a candidate to host the plasma [[nuclear fusion|fusion reactor]] [[ITER]], but lost out to [[Cadarache]], [[France]]. Rokkasho has been hosting the Helios high-performance supercomputer<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.top500.org/system/177449 |title=Helios |publisher=[[TOP500]] |accessdate= 20 November 2012}}</ref> centre capable of performing complex plasma physics calculations for fusion research, since January 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iter.org/newsline/172/683 |title=Rokkasho to host supercomputer for fusion research |publisher=[[ITER]] |accessdate=21 April 2011}}</ref>

===Gas and wind power===
* Mutsu-Ogawara Oil Storage Facility <ref>[http://www.moos.co.jp/english/ 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>[https://www.eco-power.co.jp/project.html 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>[http://www.jwd.co.jp/english/outline.html 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
* Battery energy storage facility
** 34 MW (204 MWh) [[grid energy storage]] facility using [[Sodium–sulfur battery|sodium–sulfur batteries]], manufactured by [[NGK]], installed since 2008<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.eei.org/about/meetings/meeting_documents/abe.pdf |title= NAS Battery energy storage system|publisher= [[NGK]] Insulators|date= 2013|accessdate= 2015-01-24}}</ref>

===Agriculture===
Stock raising is prevalent.

===Fishing===
Three small fishing ports.

==Transportation==
===Railway===
*Rokkasho is not served by any passenger train service. The closest train station is either [[Noheji Station]] or [[Otomo Station]] on the [[Aomori Railway]] or [[Fukikoshi Station]] on the [[Ominato Line]]

===Highway===
* [[File:Japanese National Route Sign 0279.svg|22px|link=|alt=]] [[Shimokita Expressway]]
* {{jct|country=JPN|Route|338}}
* {{jct|country=JPN|Route|394}}

==International relations==
{{flagicon|Germany}} [[Waren (Müritz)|Waren]], [[Mecklenburg-Vorpommern]], [[Germany]], sister city since 1994.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clair.or.jp/cgi-bin/simai/e/03.cgi?p=02&n=Aomori%20Prefecture|title=International Exchange|work=List of Affiliation Partners within Prefectures|publisher=Council of Local Authorities for International Relations (CLAIR)|language=English|accessdate=21 November 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151122060024/http://www.clair.or.jp/cgi-bin/simai/e/03.cgi?p=02&n=Aomori%20Prefecture|archivedate=22 November 2015}}</ref>

==Local attractions==
*Rokkasho Prefectural History Museum

==In popular media==
A documentary, ''[[Rokkasho Rhapsody]]'', came out in 2006, which portrays the Rokkasho community's views on the nuclear reprocessing plant.<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q4184404|id=tt0820141|title=Rokkashomura Rhapsody}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.rokkasho.jp/ Official Website] {{in lang|ja}}

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[[Category:Populated coastal places in Japan]]
[[Category:Radioactive waste repositories]]
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