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Japan, China spar over import ban after Fukushima water release

Japan, China spar over import ban after Fukushima water release

JAKARTA – Japan and China on Wednesday traded barbs over Beijing’s ban on all of Japanese seafood imports following the release of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida criticizing the neighboring country’s negative reaction to the discharge as “conspicuous.”