TOKYO: Japanese government officials on Monday sought understanding from fisheries groups for the impending release of treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the sea and pledged to support their livelihoods throughout the process that will take decades.
Economy and Industry Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura met with Masanobu Sakamoto, the head of the National Federation of Fisheries Cooperatives, and promised that the government was doing everything it could to ensure the safety of the release and prepared measures to protect the fisheries industry's reputation.
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