China has lifted its ban on Japanese seafood imports from most regions, reflecting a thaw in relations due to Japan's handling of nuclear wastewater from Fukushima. This decision comes amid ongoing tensions over military spending and historical grievances from Japan's wartime occupation of China. While trade ties are critical, China's conditional resume of imports excludes seafood from ten prefectures, including Fukushima. Japanese officials welcomed the move, signaling a desire for further normalization in trade relations, but Japan remains firm in seeking a complete lifting of restrictions.
In 2011, a huge earthquake triggered a deadly tsunami that swamped the Fukushima nuclear facility and pushed three of its six reactors into meltdown.
Samples from long-term monitoring of nuclear-contaminated water from Fukushima had "not shown abnormalities", China's General Administration of Customs said in a statement Sunday.
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