China banned all Japanese seafood imports while South Korean protesters tried to storm Tokyo’s embassy in Seoul on Thursday as Japan started releasing into the Pacific Ocean treated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. China’s customs authority said it would “suspend the import of aquatic products originating in Japan from 24 August 2023, including edible aquatic animals”. The decision was taken to “comprehensively prevent the food safety risks of radioactive contamination caused by the discharge of nuclear wastewater from Fukushima into the sea,” the General Administration of Customs said.

Fukushima water release sparks seafood ban, protesters' arrest. (2023, August 25). Daily Tribune, p. B14.