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Can Japan Learn to Love Nuclear Power Again?
The government is backing the construction of new reactors for the first time since Fukushima. It will have to convince a skeptical public first.
Protesters outside Tepco headquarters in Tokyo in March.
Photographer: Philip Fong/AFP/Getty Images
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A nuclear renaissance might be happening in the most unlikely of places.
Just over a decade on from Fukushima, the northern Japanese region that became globally synonymous with the dangers of nuclear power, Tokyo seems ready to embrace atomic energy once more.