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logo 9/23/2024 10:21:28 PM     
U.S. envoy visits Fukushima to eat fish, criticize China's seafood ban over wastewater release 
By MARI YAMAGUCHI JP Source: yahoo 8/31/2023
MARI YAMAGUCHI
Credit: U.S. Embassy via AP)ASSOCIATED PRESS
The U.S. ambassador to Japan visited a city in Fukushima on Thursday and had a seafood lunch with the mayor, talked to fishermen and stocked up on local produce to show they are safe after the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, backing Japan while criticizing China's ban on Japanese seafood as political.
 

Ambassador Rahm Emanuel ate flounder and sea bass sashimi with Soma Mayor Hidekiyo Tachiya, talked with local fishermen, and visited a grocery store where he sampled fruits and bought peaches, figs, grapes, flounder, sea bass and other produce from Fukushima prefecture.

 
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