US envoy visits Fukushima to eat fish, criticize China's seafood ban over wastewater release
Thursday, 31 August 2023 The US ambassador to Japan visited a city in Fukushima on Thursday and had a seafood lunch with the mayor, talked to fishermen and stocked up on local produce to show they are safe after the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, backing Japan while criticizing China's ban on Japanese seafood as political.
Japan said Tuesday that harassment being faced by Japanese in China after the release of water from the Fukushima nuclear plant was "extremely regrettable", confirming that a brick was thrown at his country's embassy in Beijing.
Last week, China banned all seafood imports from its neighbour as...
Japan PM Fumio Kishida and several ministers ate seafood sourced from the sea off Fukushima Prefecture. Japan PM Fumio Kishida ate sashimi consisting of sea bass, flounder, and octopus, alongside rice..
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida dines on Fukushima fish in a renewed public relations effort to support Japanese seafood, after wastewater was released from the area's crippled nuclear plant into..
Tokyo has called on China to urge its citizens to halt acts of ‘extremely regrettable’ harassment after Japan started to release treated water from its Fukushima nuclear power plant
Credit: euronews (in English) Duration: 00:35Published
Thursday, 31 August 2023
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