US ambassador to Japan visits Fukushima, expects US support in seafood dispute

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Rahm Emanuel, the American ambassador to Japan, visited the Fukushima area on Thursday and informed reporters that he anticipated the United States would back Japan in the event that China’s embargo on Japanese seafood led to a dispute at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). China, Japan’s largest trading partner, banned Japanese aquatic items last Thursday after Japan began discharging treated radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean. Japanese officials have hinted that diplomatic measures, including a World Trade Organisation (WTO) complaint, may be taken to pressure China to reverse the prohibition, which Japan claims...