TOKYO, (PNA/Xinhua) — Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on Monday sent a senior official to South Korea to protest its ban on fisheries products from eight prefectures in Japan, imposed over safety fears concerning radioactive water leaking from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Kenji Kagawa, the director-general of the fisheries agency’s Resources Enhancement Promotion Department, will meet with South Korean officials from both the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, and hear their explanations for imposing the ban.
According to the fisheries agency, Kagawa will seek to have the ban reversed and the Japanese government is also considering filing a suit against South Korea with the World Trade Organization for the import ban to add further pressure on Seoul to have the ban lifted.