Head of Japan's Komeito party meets senior China official, seeks end of seafood ban

The leader of the junior partner in Japan's ruling coalition called Wednesday while visiting Beijing for the end of China's ban on Japanese seafood imports imposed over the release of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the sea.Komeito party chief Natsuo Yamaguchi met with Cai Qi, the fifth-ranking Communist Party leader, in the Chinese capital and handed him a personal letter from Prime Minister Fumio Kishida addressed to President Xi Jinping.During a summit held last week in San Francisco, Kishida and Xi agreed to hold expert consultations on t…READ FULL ARTICLE