ANTI-NUCLEAR CANDIDATE WINS NIIGATA GOVERNOR ELECTION|日新潟縣知事選戰 反核派米山隆一獲勝

On October 16, anti-nuclear candidate Yoneyama Ryuichi was elected governor of Niigata. He is the second anti-nuclear candidate elected after July's governor election in Kagoshima prefecture. The election result is a huge blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's energy policy, which attempts to restart the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, the world's biggest nuclear power plant. ==SUPPORTERS== Banzai! Banzai! Banzai! Banzai! On October 16, anti-nuclear candidate Yoneyama Ryuichi, recommended by three opposition parties, won the 20th gubernatorial election in Niigata Prefecture with more than 528,000 votes. He gathered about 60,000 votes more than former Nagaoka Mayor Tamio Mori, who was backed by the ruling Liberal Democratic party. ==YONEYAMA RYUICHI, Newly Elected Niigata Governor== The victory belongs to everyone. It also belongs to the entire Niigata prefecture. From now on, it is indeed a whole new start. The 49-year-old candidate was a medical doctor. To run for the election, he left the Democratic Party of Japan, and served as an independent candidate. Since the start of the campaign, Yoneyama expressed a clear anti-nuclear position. For the sake of the residents' safety, he promised to continue the policy of the departing governor, who refused to restart the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant. ==YONEYAMA RYUICHI, Newly Elected Niigata Governor== We will soon face the subject whether to restart the nuclear plant or not. As I have promised all of you, under current circumstances where I can't protect people's lives and their living, I clearly declare that I can't approve a restart of the plant. According to Tokyo Electric Power Company, the seven-reactor Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant is the world's biggest nuclear power plant. It was shut down in 2011 after the Fukushima nuclear accident for periodic inspection. Kyodo News said that election results in the Niigata prefecture and the Kagoshima prefecture show that the public does not believe in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's energy policy. Abe's pro-nuclear Liberal Democratic Party sees a tough contest to reboot more reactors for 30 percent of the nation's electricity needs. TRANSLATED BY：ARIEL HSIEH ==米山隆一競選總部== 萬歲 萬歲 萬歲 萬歲 高呼萬歲，日本第20屆新潟縣知事選舉，16號結果出爐，由在野三黨共同提名的，反核派候選人"米山隆一"，以52萬8千票，大勝執政聯盟候選人的46萬5千票。 ==新潟知事選戰當選人 米山隆一== 這真的是屬於大家的勝利 真的是屬於全新潟的勝利 從現在開始才是(真正的)開始 49歲的米山隆一，原本是醫師，為了參選新潟縣知事，脫離民進黨，以無黨籍身分參選，不過新任的民進黨黨魁蓮舫等在野黨重要人物，還是賣力為米山站台輔選。他的政見主張反核，打算承續現任知事的做法，以嚴厲的態度，質疑柏崎刈羽核電廠的安全性，承諾為了保護縣民安全，決不鬆口重啟核電廠。 ==新潟知事選戰當選人 米山隆一== (核電廠)再啟動的話題 一定會馬上面臨到 我會照著跟大家的約定 在無法守護大家生命跟生活的現況下 絕對不會承認讓核電廠再啟動 根據東京電力公司的資料，新潟的柏崎刈羽核電廠，共有7組發電機組，是世界上目前最大的核電廠，在311地震後，核電廠以定期檢修的名義，暫時停止運轉。 日本共同社分析，在7月鹿兒島縣知事選舉，同樣由承諾暫停九州電力川內核電廠的新人當選後，這次新潟的選舉結果，反應了普羅大眾對核電政策的質疑，對安倍晉三內閣偏向重啟核電的政策，造成重大的衝擊。 記者 陳詩童 報導