China bans some Japanese food imports

By Agence France-Presse

Jul 08, 2023 12:11 am

BEIJING: China's customs authority on Friday said it would ban food imports from 10 Japanese prefectures over Tokyo's plan to release treated nuclear wastewater into the ocean.

Japan's planned, decades-long discharge of accumulated water from the devastated Fukushima nuclear facility has been approved by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as meeting global standards.

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