FOCUS: Japan still faces diplomatic challenge in Fukushima water release

One of Japan's major challenges in successfully carrying out the release of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear complex into the Pacific, set to start Thursday, is a diplomatic one as China continues its attempt to politicize the discharge plan.China is very unlikely to change its position on Japan's water release, part of the power plant's decommissioning work, and may even tighten its restrictions further on Japanese food imports implemented since the complex's nuclear disaster triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011, diplomacy experts say.But exper…READ FULL ARTICLE