"For China, Japanese maritime product imports make up a small share of their market.
"They want to punish Japan economically for this." "We think they may enforce a total ban on Japanese maritime products," one of the officials said. Two of the officials said that could include a blanket ban. Three Japanese government officials and a ruling party lawmaker, speaking on condition of anonymity given the sensitivity of the issue, said they expected China to expand restrictions on Japanese seafood. The release is due to start in coming weeks and take up to 40 years. The planned release of the water from the plant north of Tokyo has faced opposition at home and abroad despite Japanese assurances that it is safe after being filtered to remove most isotopes.Ĭhina was the biggest buyer of Japanese seafood exports last year, even though it is among several countries that restrict imports from some Japanese regions because of the nuclear accident.Ĭhina is also the fiercest critic of Japan's planned release of the water saying it threatens marine life and human health.Ĭhina has not said what action it will take if the release goes head but it has warned Japan that it must "bear all the consequences" of its action.
nuclear watchdog this week gave Japan the greenlight to begin discharging more than a million metric tons of water, enough to fill 500 Olympic swimming pools, used to cool the plant's fuel rods after it was wrecked by a 2011 tsunami. TOKYO/BEIJING, July 6 (Reuters) - Japanese officials are worried that China, the biggest buyer of its seafood exports, may halt purchases of those items after Tokyo begins releasing treated radioactive water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea.
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