Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday morning asked senior Chinese Communist Party official Liu Jianchao that Beijing lift its ban on imports of Japanese fishery products. Kishida met with Liu, who heads the International Department of the party’s Central Committee, at the Prime Minister’s Office in Tokyo. China introduced the blanket ban last year in … Read more
Japan and China held a meeting last month over the release of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea and China’s subsequent import ban on Japanese marine products, sources close to the matter have said. At the online meeting, there was no major progress in their discussions, as China keeps … Read more
Jakarta – A group of Indonesian environmental and human rights activists on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Japan to demand it stop releasing treated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, which started last summer. Marthin Hadiwinata, a member of environmental organization Ekomarin and one of the plaintiffs, said the … Read more
TOKYO: Highly radioactive water leaked from a treatment machine at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, but no one was injured and radiation monitoring shows no impact to the outside environment, the utility operator said on Thursday. A plant worker found the leak Wednesday morning during valve checks at a SARRY treatment machine called, … Read more
The International Atomic Energy Agency said Tuesday that Japan’s discharge of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea is consistent with international safety standards in its first full report since the water release began last summer. The report was based on a review mission carried out in October by the … Read more
Sao Paulo – The Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry held an event in Sao Paulo on Sunday to promote scallops and other fishery products from Japan. The move is part of an effort by Japan to reduce its reliance on the Chinese market after Beijing in August last year banned imports of fishery products from … Read more
Sao Paulo – The Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry held an event in Sao Paulo on Sunday to promote scallops and other fishery products from Japan. The move is part of an effort by Japan to reduce its reliance on the Chinese market after Beijing in August last year banned imports of fishery products from … Read more
The third round of discharging treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant into the sea concluded Monday, the plant operator said, with the utility planning another round in the current fiscal year. As in the previous rounds, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) released about 7,800 metric tons of processed … Read more
Shiseido slashed its full-year profit forecast on slower demand from Chinese consumers following the release of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. The Japanese cosmetics company now expects core operating profit of ¥35 billion ($231 million) in the year ending Dec. 31, a 42% reduction from the previous estimate, it said … Read more
Japan’s marine product exports to China plunged 90.8% from a year earlier to ¥800 million ($5.3 million) in September, after Beijing began a blanket import ban on Japanese seafood over the discharge of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea, government data showed Tuesday. The China-bound exports fell for … Read more