Japan resumes seafood exports to China after Beijing eases 2023 ban

Japan has resumed seafood shipments to China for the first time since Beijing banned imports in 2023 over the release into the sea of treated radioactive wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the government said Friday.Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara told a press conference that the government takes it "positively" that six tons of frozen scallops from Japan's northern main island of Hokkaido were shipped to China on Wednesday.Farm minister Norikazu Suzuki said at a separate news conference that 600 kilograms of salted sea cucumbers will follow on Monday.China in…READ FULL ARTICLE