Japan calls on China to tackle fire ants

Japanese Environment Minister Masaharu Nakagawa on Saturday called on China to take preventive measures against the spread of venomous fire ants, which have over the past year repeatedly been brought to Japan in containers shipped from China.Nakagawa made the request in a bilateral meeting with his Chinese counterpart Li Ganjie on the sidelines of a tripartite environment ministers meeting in Suzhou, eastern China, also including South Korea.More than 2,000 venomous fire ants were discovered in a shipping container from China that arrived at a port in Osaka Prefecture earlier this month, ac…READ FULL ARTICLE