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Malay Mail
30-06-2025
- Business
- Malay Mail
China lifts ban on Japanese seafood imports, but Fukushima and Tokyo still excluded
BEIJING, June 30 — China has lifted a ban on seafood imports from most regions of Japan, partially mending a years-long dispute over Tokyo's handling of nuclear wastewater. Japan began gradually releasing treated wastewater from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean in 2023. The move was backed by the International Atomic Energy Agency but drew sharp criticism from Beijing, which banned imports of Japanese seafood as a result. Samples from long-term monitoring of nuclear-contaminated water from Fukushima had 'not shown abnormalities', China's General Administration of Customs said in a statement Sunday. As a result, China 'decided to conditionally resume' seafood imports from Japan, with the exception of imports from 10 of the country's 47 prefectures, including Fukushima and Tokyo, which remain banned. In 2011, a huge earthquake triggered a deadly tsunami that swamped the Fukushima nuclear facility and pushed three of its six reactors into meltdown. China, whose ties with Japan have long been strained by Tokyo's imperial legacy, vociferously opposed the release of the treated wastewater, casting it as environmentally irresponsible. Production companies that had suspended imports must reapply for registration in China and would be 'strictly' supervised, Beijing's customs administration said Sunday. — AFP
Arab News
30-05-2025
- Business
- Arab News
China, Japan close to resuming seafood imports after Fukushima ban
BEIJIG: China and Japan said Friday they were moving closer to ending a years-long dispute over Tokyo's handling of nuclear wastewater that prompted Beijing to ban imports of Japanese 2023, Japan began gradually releasing treated wastewater from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific move was backed by the International Atomic Energy Agency, but drew sharp criticism from Beijing, which banned Japanese seafood imports as a indicated on Friday that it was edging closer to lifting the ban, saying talks with Japanese officials in Beijing this week had 'achieved substantial progress.''So far this year, the two sides have carried out several rounds of technical exchanges,' Beijing's customs administration said in a statement, without giving further Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Beijing and Tokyo had 'reached an agreement on the technical requirements necessary to resume exports of fishery products to China.''Exports to China will resume as soon as the re-registration process for export-related facilities is completed,' Hayashi said on Friday.'We regard this as a major milestone,' he told a press previously said it had found no abnormalities in seawater and marine life samples it independently collected near the Fukushima plant in February, but indicated more tests were needed before revoking the 2011, a huge earthquake triggered a deadly tsunami that swamped the Fukushima nuclear facility and pushed three of its six reactors into whose ties with Japan have long been strained by Tokyo's imperial legacy, vociferously opposed the release of the treated wastewater, casting it as environmentally irresponsible.
ABC News
21-05-2025
- Politics
- ABC News
UN Human Rights Council expresses concern over Fukushima's treated wastewater
The United Nations Human Rights Council has raised concerns over the risk to food supplies and marine life posed by Japan's controlled release of treated nuclear wastewater. It's the first time a UN body has commented on Japan's controversial plan to release 1.3 million metric tonnes of treated wastewater into the Pacific Ocean. The UN Human Rights Council warning was in response to a complaint filed by the Pacific Network on Globalisation. "I think this is a landmark move for ocean justice in general," said Joey Tau, Coordinator for the Fiji-based civil society group. "It formally puts Japan on notice."
ABC News
20-05-2025
- Politics
- ABC News
Penny Wong assures pacific nations of Australia's commitment to climate action
Foreign affairs minister Penny Wong has reaffirmed the government's commitment to climate action as she tours the Pacific region in her first solo overseas trip after Labor's election victory. A mystery illness in rural Eastern Highlands Province has reportedly claimed the lives of more than 10 people. Health authorities have been unable to verify the reports. Fiji's police commissioner says the country's new Counter Narcotics Bureau needs to be reviewed after a police officer working with it was arrested over a recent methamphetamine bust. The United Nations Human Rights Council has raised its concern over the risk to food supplies and marine life posed by Japan's controlled release of treated nuclear wastewater. There's debate in Guam over whether is should consider whether to become the United States' 51st State. The territory's decolonization committee says it must be determined by the people. Former Ikale Tahi coach Toutai Kefu being appointed to lead a First Nations-Pasifika fifteen against the British and Irish Lions in July. With two rounds to go in the Super Rugby competition, Moana Pasifika are ranked 6th on the table and in a good position to make into the playoffs for the first time.
