The Japanese government has reiterated its call for South Korea to lift its ban on imports of Japanese fishery products, a Japanese news agency reported.
South Korea has banned all fishery imports from eight Japanese prefectures surrounding the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan since Sept. 9, 2013 as highly radioactive water was found to have leaked from a storage tank into the ground at the Fukushima plant.
Japan made the demand during a meeting of the World Health Organization's (WHO) sanitary and phytosanitary committee in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday (local time), according to the Kyodo News.
The South Korean government already launched a committee composed of experts last month to review what it called the "scientific validity" of its ban on imports of Japanese fishery products.
A 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsumani in March 2011 led to the catastrophic meltdown of a nuclear reactor at the Fukushima plant. Fukushima was the world’s second most disastrous nuclear incident after Chernobyl which occurred in 1986.
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Park Sae-jin
swatchsjp@ajunews.com
