U.S. Envoy to Japan Raps China’s Fishery Import Suspension

Tokyo, Nov. 20 (Jiji Press)–U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass on Thursday condemned China’s effective suspension of imports of Japanese fishery products. “Coercion is a hard habit to break for Beijing,” Glass said in a post on X. “But just as the United States stood by Japan during China’s last unwarranted ban” on Japanese fishery products, “we will be there for our ally again this time,” he added. Beijing’s latest decision came after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said in a parliamentary meeting earlier this month that a possible contingency over Taiwan could constitute a so-called survival-threatening situation for Japan. China regards Taiwan as a renegade province and aims to unite the self-governing island with its mainland. The Chinese government earlier this year eased its blanket import ban for Japanese fishery products, which was put in place after the start of the release into the ocean of tritium-containing treated water from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in August 2023. END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]