China to Work Toward Easing Japanese Seafood Import Ban Gradually

China has said it will reconsider its ban on seafood imported from Japan as the two countries have reached an agreement over the discharge of treated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the ocean. According to the new agreement announced on Sept. 20, Japan would expand its long-term international monitoring measures under the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) framework and ensure that all stakeholder countries, including China, can conduct independent sampling and interlaboratory comparisons. “We have been discussing with China on an administrative level, and by today, we have reached a certain level of mutual understanding,” Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters on Sept. 20....