China to resume some Japanese seafood imports after Fukushima ban
Beijing: China has lifted the ban on seafood imports from most regions of Japan, partly a year -long dispute over Tokyo’s nuclear wastewater handling.China and Japan are major trading partners, but there has been an increase in friction on regional rivalry and military expenses, there are relationships in recent years.Japan’s brutal occupation in parts of China before and during the Second World War, Beijing accused Tokyo of failing to atone for his past.Japan gradually started treating wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant in 2023 in 2023.The move was supported by the International Atomic Energy Agency and the plant operator TEPCO says that all radioactive elements are filtered leaving the tritium, of which the levels are within the safe range.But it raised a strong criticism from Beijing, which resulted in banning the import of Japanese seafood. Russia later suits.China’s general administration said in a statement on Sunday, “Long-term monitoring samples of nuclear-discounted water from Fukushima” did not show up abnormalities “.As a result, China “decided to re -start seafood imports from Japan, including Fukushima and Tokyo,” with the exception of importing 10 out of 47 provinces of the country, which is restricted.The Japanese government received “positive” decision, Kajuhiko Aoki, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, told reporters in Tokyo.But Japan “will demand to increase the remaining import rules on seafood from 10 provinces to the Chinese side”, he said.Japanese Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi also called China’s move “a major milestone”.In 2011, a huge earthquake triggered a deadly tsunami, which swallowed the Fukushima nuclear feature and pushed three of their six reactors to the meltdown.China opposed the release of outspoken wastewater, casting it environmentally irresponsible. But in September last year, it was said that it would gradually start again “will import seafood.Beijing’s Customs Administration said on Sunday that production companies had suspended trade for registration in China and would be “strictly” supervised.
