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Hokkaido
![Japan Struggles to Secure Radioactive Nuclear Waste Dump Sites Japan Struggles to Secure Radioactive Nuclear Waste Dump Sites](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-8389262212_38308b8bfc_k.jpg)
Japan Struggles to Secure Radioactive Nuclear Waste Dump Sites
By Thisanka Siripala
A small, aging town grapples with the financial lure of storing radioactive waste underground.
![Amid Thaw, Japan Is Seeing a Boom in Chinese Tourists Amid Thaw, Japan Is Seeing a Boom in Chinese Tourists](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-3217906938_223fc2716f_b.jpg)
Amid Thaw, Japan Is Seeing a Boom in Chinese Tourists
By Daniel Hurst
The influx is remaking Japan's ski resorts -- and potentially its foreign policy as well.
![Is Japan Closer to Recognizing Indigenous Ainu Rights? Is Japan Closer to Recognizing Indigenous Ainu Rights?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-ap_9203270401.jpg)
Is Japan Closer to Recognizing Indigenous Ainu Rights?
By Thisanka Siripala
After more than a century of forced assimilation, the Ainu are set to be recognized as Indigenous for the first time.
![Japan’s Latest Deadly Earthquake Buries Scores Alive Japan’s Latest Deadly Earthquake Buries Scores Alive](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-ap_18250151533202.jpg)
Japan’s Latest Deadly Earthquake Buries Scores Alive
By Thisanka Siripala
Just days after “National Disaster Prevention Day,” a powerful earthquake jolted Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido.
Machimura’s By-election Win
Odds were in favour of the LDP heavyweight. We shouldn’t read too much into the DPJ’s defeat.
Machimura Career on Line
A veteran Japanese politician risks political suicide by choosing to contest Hokkaido’s No. 5 Constituency.
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