China has lifted a ban on seafood imports from most regions of Japan and sometimes builds a long -term dispute over Tokios handling of nuclear wastewater.
China and Japan are important trading partners, but increased friction about territorial rivalries and military spending has asked ties in recent years.
Japan’s brutal occupation of parts of China before and during the Second World War there remains a painful point, with Beijing Tokyo being neglected for his past.
Japan gradually began in 2023 with the publication of the treated wastewater from the extended Fukushima core in the Pacific.
The move was supported by the International Atomic Energy Agency and the plant operator Tepco that all radioactive elements were filtered out with the exception of tritium, the levels of which are within safe limits.
But it was sharp criticism from Beijing, which banished the imports of Japanese seafood as a result. Russia followed later.
The samples from the long -term monitoring of core -contaminated water from Fukushima had “not shown anomalies,” said China’s general customs administration of customs in a declaration on Sunday.
As a result, China “resumed imports from seafood from Japan, with the exception of imports from 10 of the 47 prefectures of the country, including Fukushima and Tokyo, which are prohibited.
The Japanese government received the decision “positive,” said Kazuhiko Aoki, deputy cabinet secretary, reporters in Tokyo.
Japan “will emphasize the Chinese side elevator emphatically that the regulations for seafood of 10 prefectures are available,” he added.
The Japanese Minister of Agriculture Shinjiro Koizumi also described China’s step as a “big milestone”.
In 2011, a huge earthquake triggered a fatal tsunami that flooded the fukushima nuclear system and pushed three of its six reactors into the meltdown.
China loudly opposed the release of the treated wastewater and threw it responsibly. But in September last year it said that it would “gradually resume” to import the seafood.
Production companies that had suspended trade must register again in China and be supervised “strictly”, said Beijing’s customs administration on Sunday.
