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Japan records waves upto 50cm post 8.8 quake
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
The warning disrupted railway and air services along the coast and led the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to halt the release of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean, as per Kyodo News.
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Japan to keep urging China to lift seafood import ban: Prime Minister Fumi
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday said Japan will continue urging China to lift its import ban on Japanese seafood following the oceanic discharge of treated radioactive water from a nuclear power plant. Kishida called for a "cool-headed," science-based judgment on the issue, K
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Japan should take China to WTO over ban on Japanese seafood imports: Forme
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
A former senior UN official has said Japan should take China to the World Trade Organization (WTO) over Beijing's decision to ban imports of Japanese fishery products following the release of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, Kyodo News reported.
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Japan protests against China’s blanket seafood import ban following releas
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Japan argued that China's import suspension is "totally unacceptable," adding that Tokyo will continue to ask Beijing to "immediately repeal its measure.”
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Japan starts releasing treated radioactive water from Fukushima nuclear po
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The contentious decision was made at a ministerial meeting on Tuesday morning because a sizable volume of water has accumulated at the site since the nuclear disaster in 2011, which was brought on by a devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami
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Japanese PM announces release of Fukushima nuclear plant water on Aug 24
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The contentious decision was made at a ministerial meeting on Tuesday morning because a sizable volume of water has accumulated at the site since the nuclear disaster in 2011, which was brought on by a devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami
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Japan's plan to release radioactive water into Pacific causes fear despite
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Twelve years after the triple catastrophe, earthquake, tsunami, and reactor meltdown, that struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in 2011, Japan is preparing to release part of the treated wastewater from the stricken plant into the Pacific Ocean this month. A recent article from
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Japan PM visits Fukushima nuclear plant ahead of release of treated radioa
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Kishida’s visit comes a day before his meeting with ministers aimed to discuss when to start the release of water.
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Japan PM to meet ministers, discuss when to release Fukushima water
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will on Tuesday meet his minister to discuss when to release treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, a government source said on Saturday, amid opposition from local fishermen and some neighbouring countries, Kyodo
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Japan: Fukushima moms led charge for radiation data
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Fukushima's mothers have become radiation experts to protect their children as the Japanese government gets ready to transfer cleaned water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant later this summer, according to Kyodo News.
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S Korea launches radiation tests on seawater amid Japan's plan to release
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
South Korea chose 108 more coastal spots, 75 spots in the east, west and south of South Korea, as well as the waters off the southern island of Jeju, and 33 spots from more distant areas to collect samples to check radioactivity levels, Vice Oceans Minister Park Sung-hoon said during a press
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Japan PM Kishida to meet fishery group head over Fukushima water release p
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is about to meet the Head of the National Federation of Fisheries Cooperatives Masanobu Sakamotom possibly in late July to pitch the government's plan of releasing treated radioactive water from the disaster-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant, a government source
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