China to resume importing JP seafood

Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio told reporters on Friday that Japan and China have reached an agreement to resume China’s imports of Japanese seafood. He also said that additional monitoring of the water discharge will be conducted under a framework led by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Based on the results of this monitoring, China will resume imports of Japanese marine products that meet Chinese safety standards. China suspended the imports in August last year after the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began discharging treated and diluted water into the ocean from the damaged plant.