HONG KONG: Hong Kong will ban 'aquatic products' from 10 Japanese prefectures, a government minister said Tuesday (Aug 22), after city leader John Lee condemned Tokyo's plans to release water from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean.
HONG KONG: Hong Kong will ban "aquatic products" from 10 Japanese prefectures, a government minister said Tuesday , after city leader John Lee condemned Tokyo's plans to release water from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean. Japan has said the gradual release into the sea of more than 500 Olympic swimming pools' worth of water -- 12 years after the Fukushima disaster -- is safe, a view backed by the UN atomic agency.
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