Tournaments for the Basketball World Cup held in Okinawa will begin Friday, despite a North Korean spy satellite launch attempt that prompted an evacuation alert in Japan.
S. Korea to keep import ban on Japan’s fishery products in place: PM
Fish dolls with radioactive signs are seen during a rally against the Japanese government’s plan to release wastewater from the stricken Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean at Gwang
China bans seafood from Japan after Fukushima nuclear plant begins releasing wastewater
The tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant is releasing treated radioactive water into the ocean, prompting China to ban seafood from Japan.
In Japan’s neighbors, fear and frustration are shared over radioactive water release
Public fears and frustrations are being shared in Japan’s neighboring countries about the release of treated radioactive wastewater from a crippled nuclear power plant …
South Korean Leader, a Biden Friend, Faces Challenge Over Japan’s Radioactive Water
As Yoon Suk Yeol seeks closer ties with Tokyo, many South Koreans are protesting its discharge of nuclear-plant water into the sea.
China’s ban on Japanese seafood has more political than economic heft
China may be Japan’s top seafood export market but marine products make up less than 1% of Tokyo’s global trade, which is dominated by cars, so that Beijing’s seafood ban on its neighbour is more of a political gesture,
Fukushima: China retaliates as Japan releases treated nuclear water
Japan has begun its controversial discharge of treated waste water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, sparking protests in the region and retaliation from Beijing. China is the biggest buyer of seafood from Japan, and on Thursday it said it would block all such imports.
China bans seafood from Japan after the Fukushima nuclear plant begins its wastewater release
The operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it will begin releasing the first batch of treated and diluted radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean later Thursday.
S.Korea police arrest 16 Fukushima protesters seeking to enter Japan embassy
South Korean police arrested on Thursday at least 16 people who entered a building housing the Japanese embassy in Seoul during a protest against Tokyo’s release of water from the Fukushima nuclear plant.
South Korea, US and Japan ‘Strongly Condemn’ North Korea Launch
South Korea Foreign Minister Park Jin and his U.S. and Japan counterparts on Thursday “strongly condemned” a North Korean rocket launch which they said was a ballistic missile disguised as a space rocket,