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The waters are clearing for Japan’s seafood exports

Marketplace All-in-One

Marketplace

News, Business

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

From the BBC World Service: China has agreed to start lifting its ban on Japanese fish, almost two years after it blocked imports over the release of treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant. Russia made more than $25 billion last year exporting fossil fuels to the European Union; that's $4.5 billion more than the E.U. gave Kyiv in aid. The Super Bowl halftime show is iconic, but in soccer, it’s a different picture. European leagues and FIFA are spending big on pre-match entertainment, with halftime shows planned for the next World Cup. But do fans even want it?

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The tide is turning as China reopens doors to Japanese fish. Good morning. This is the Marketplace Morning Report.

1:03.9

And we're live from the BBC World Service. I'm Leanna Byrne. So the waters are clearing for Japan's seafood exports.

1:10.8

China has agreed to start lifting its ban on Japanese fish,

1:14.2

almost two years after it blocked imports over the release of treated wastewater

1:18.8

from the Fukushima nuclear plant.

1:21.3

Here's the BBC's Katie Silver.

1:23.0

It stems back to this decision by Japan in 2023 to release treated wastewater.

1:29.1

So in 2011 there was a tsunami triggered by a magnitude 9 earthquake, flooded three reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi

1:34.8

nuclear power plant. It's been regarded as one of the world's worst nuclear disaster since

1:39.7

Chernobyl. Now, the power plant was severely damaged, started to accumulate wastewater to the tune of

1:45.0

about more than a million tons of treated wastewater by 2023. That's about 500 Olympic-sized

1:50.8

swimming pools. That led Japan to make the decision to release this wastewater. It was a process,

1:55.6

they said, would take 30 years, and it ran in line with what is common other nuclear power plants,

2:00.2

for example,

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