China Agrees to Resume Some Seafood Imports From Japan
China agreed to allow seafood imports from Japan pending some final procedural moves, Japan's Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said on Friday, in a step forward from Beijing's blanket ban on the shipments following Tokyo's release in 2023 of wastewater from a wrecked nuclear power plant.
A ban on seafood exported from 37 prefectures will be lifted, Koizumi said at a press conference in Tokyo, although separate restrictions on products from 10 prefectures including Tokyo and Fukushima, instated after the devastating accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant, are still in place.
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