Unit 1 of Kyushu Electric Power’s Sendai nuclear plant restarted on August 11, 2015. Before that, the Satsumasendai city assembly and mayor and the Kagoshima prefectural assembly and governor had agreed to the restart. In November 2014, Governor Itō Yūichirō named the safety review by the Nuclear Regulation Authority as his reason.
In practice, a utility needs this jimoto dōi, local consent, before a restart. As an editorial in the Ryūkyū Shimpō noted, no law defines the scope of local consent.