China to resume Japanese seafood import after Fukushima Ban – Times of India

Beijing: China has eliminated a ban on the import of seafood from most regions of Japan, causing dispute to restore a year about the treatment of nuclear waste water by Tokyo.China and Japan are important trading partners, but an increased friction about territorial rivalry and military expenditures have frayed in recent years.The brutal occupation of Japanese occupation of parts of China before and during the Second World War remains a painful point, in which Beijing Tokyo accuses the omission to take care of his past.Japan started gradually treated waste water from the affected Fukushima -Nuclear plant in the Pacific Ocean in 2023.The move was supported by the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Tepco factory operator says that all radioactive elements have been filtered out, except for Tritium, of which levels are within safe limits.But it made sharp criticism from Beijing, who prohibited the import of Japanese seafood. Russia later followed the example.Samples of long -term monitoring of nuclear contaminated water from Fukushima had “not shown deviations,” said China’s general customs administration in a statement on Sunday.As a result, China “decided to resume the import of seafood from Japan”, with the exception of imports from 10 of the 47 prefectures of the country, including Fukushima and Tokyo, which remain forbidden.The Japanese government received the decision “positive”, said Kazuhiko Aoki, deputy main cabinet secretary, reporters in Tokyo.But Japan “will strongly demand that the Chinese side lift the remaining import regulations on seafood about seafood from 10 prefectures,” he added.The Japanese Minister of Agriculture Shinjiro Koizumi also called China’s relocation “a big milestone”.In 2011, an enormous earthquake caused a deadly tsunami that flooded the nuclear facility of Fukushima and pushed three of his six reactors into the melting.China opposed the release of the treated waste water and threw it as an environmentally friendly irresponsible. But in September last year it said that it would “gradually resume” to import the seafood.Production companies that had suspended the trade must apply again for registration in China and would be “strictly” under supervision, said Beijing’s customs administration on Sunday.