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The aim of this paper is to reconsider Sasaki (2007, 2008a-c), which analyses the opacity resulting from Rendaku in the Mitsukaido dialect of Japanese. In analysing the opacity, Sasaki (2007, 2008a-c) argues in favor of Stratal Optimality Theory (SOT, Kiparsky 2000) rather than classic Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky 1993, 2002), Sympathy Theory (McCarthy 1999), and Optimality Theory with Candidate Chains (OT-CC, McCarthy 2006, 2007). However, SOT (Kiparsky 2000) cannot explain the opacity of Rendaku properly. In this paper contrary to Sasaki (2007, 2008a-c), we attempt to solve the opacity problem by employing OT-CC (McCarthy 2006, 2007), supporting the superiority of OT-CC (McCarthy 2006, 2007) over SOT (Kiparsky 2000).