China lifts a nearly two-year ban on seafood from Japan over Fukushima wastewater


FILE PHOTO: Seafood is displayed at a market in Beijing, Dec. 29, 2024, after China banned seafood imports from Japan in August 2023. A notice from the customs agency said the ban had been lifted Sunday (June 29) and that imports from most of Japan would be resumed. - AP

BEIJING: China has reopened its market to seafood from Japan after a nearly two-year ban over the discharge of slightly radioactive wastewater from the tsunami-destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant.

A notice from the customs agency said the ban had been lifted Sunday (June 29) and that imports from most of Japan would be resumed.

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