The release of waste water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station into the ocean has contributed to strained relations between Japan and Hong Kong. In response to the release, the government moved last August to ban aquatic products from Tokyo, Fukushima, Chiba, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Gunma, Miyagi, Niigata, Nagano and Saitama. A year later, the…
Japan’s top envoy in Hong Kong has said officials from his country are in talks with local authorities over the city’s seafood import ban as he launched an inaugural exhibition on sushi. Kenichi Okada, the outgoing Japanese consul general in Hong Kong, also expressed his wish on Thursday for the city to continue shining as…
A Japanese diplomat has urged Hong Kong to make the “correct decision” and lift the city’s 13-month-long import ban on aquatic products from 10 prefectures as soon as possible, after Beijing signalled its intention to gradually roll back its own curbs. Kenichi Okada, the country’s consul general in Hong Kong, made the appeal on Wednesday,…