Food, beverage imports from Japan held up at Chinese customs

If China play soft next thing you know Japan will push country that refused to accept those tainted product using WTO as their tools.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-southkorea-wto/south-korea-wto-appeal-succeeds-in-japanese-fukushima-food-dispute-idUSKCN1RN24X

Like I said earlier, this is only the beginning, The release to this water will harm Japan image and status in the Asian markets, I just hope that japan will find an alternate method to dispose of it.

@sakurasuki

using WTO as their tools.

WTO guarantees that all countries can choose to ban Japanese food imports sourced from Ibaraki to Aomori prefecture indefinitely.

Japan's only chance in reversing this ban is if the other country expands its food import ban beyond Ibaraki-Aomori line. But as long as the ban stays within Ibaraki-Aomori, the ban is kosher with the WTO.

Oh never mind, the WTO kosher ban is from Chiba to Aomori, not Ibaraki to Aomori.

Great news I hope that people don’t suffer because of the Japanese government and companies decisions

harro Fumio and LDP crooks are you proud now?

because of TEPCO profits to throw all japanese economy in deeper/you know what/?

I encourage the Chinese to consider the health issues, as they did a few years ago.

Here we go again: Chinese political games and economic aggression. The findings of a team of IAEA international (including Chinese) experts mean nothing next to the almighty Xi Jinping Thought.

Japan should concentrate on finding other markets, like Australia, Taiwan and others did when pressured by China, as trying to discuss matters reasonably with China will never work.

because of TEPCO profits to throw all japanese economy in deeper/you know what/?

Actually, it would be much better for the Japanese economy if TEPCO does make a profit, despite how unsavory this would be for many people. If it does, it can pay for more of the decommissioning costs; if it doesn't, more of the burden will fall to the taxpayer. It's a bad situation, but it's the actual situation.

because of TEPCO profits to throw all japanese economy in deeper/you know what/?

That doesn't make sense. TEPCO's main stakeholder is the government itself. It wouldn't make sense for them to prop up TEPCO at the expense of the rest of the economy.

Great news

I'm also very much fascinated by the number of people actively rooting for the J'Gov, TEPCO, and the whole export industry to fail. What happened, who here hurt you so bad?

Way to go China put more pressure on Japan before it will be too late and they dump all the radioactive water into the ocean polluting entire Pacific and World ecosystem.

Japan and Tepco can afford technology to remove tritium from the contaminated water , maybe cut bonuses for Tepco staff?

Japan and Tepco can afford technology to remove tritium

This is not about money. The technology does not yet exist and is also not feasible at the necessary scale. And by all accounts it is not necessary to filter out tritium. Certainly noone else in the world does it, neither China nor Korea do it, Fukushima didn't do it before it went kerblooey in 2011, and not even other power plants in Japan do it right now. Holding this particular release to a different standard is nothing but political grandstanding.

Says the country that puts sawdust in pill capsules instead of medication and has mercury and lead paint on children's toys.

You know what to do.

Anytime you see the word "China" in the headlines, you know it ain't gonna be good news.

China should be checking the quality and safety of all the food they export!!

I would trust Japanese produce any day over Chinese produce!!

Coliform bacteria found in edamame from China

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230728/p2a/00m/0na/002000c