Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Japan has resumed shipping seafood to China after a two year ban due to potential radioactive waste concerns, the Japanese government said.
Minoru Kihara, Japan's chief cabinet secretary, said at a press conference that the government takes it "positively" that six tons of frozen scallops from the island of Hokkaido were shipped to China on Wednesday, Kyodo News reported. There are 1,323 pounds of salted sea cucumbers that will follow on Monday, said farm minister Norikazu Suzuki in a separate press conference on Monday.
"Tokyo will strongly demand Beijing abolish import restrictions on fishery products from the remaining 10 prefectures and resume imports of Japanese beef," NKH World Japan reported Kihara said.
China suspended imports of Japanese seafood in 2023 after the release of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea. The beef ban began after a 2001 outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease.
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