Published January 14,2025
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Japan renewed its attraction to China on Tuesday, urging it to raise the ban on seafood imports because the ruling events resumed their annual dialogue for the primary time since 2018.
Beijing imposed a blanket ban on Japanese seafood imports after Tokyo started releasing handled radioactive water into the ocean in August 2023.
The attraction got here as lawmakers from Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito, presently on an official go to to Beijing, held talks with the Chinese Communist Party.
In September 2024, China mentioned it could “gradually resume” seafood imports from Japan.
This marks the primary time since October 2018 that the 2 sides have resumed party-to-party dialogue.
Hiroshi Moriyama, the secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party, additionally referred to as on China to make sure the protection of Japanese nationals residing there.
The Chinese delegation was led by Liu Jianchao, the top of the Chinese Communist Party’s International Department.
Dialogue between the ruling events of China and Japan started in 2006 however was suspended beginning in 2018 because of the basic deterioration in bilateral relations and partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
However, each international locations have lately taken steps to stabilize their ties, with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi anticipated to go to Japan subsequent month.
Japan’s Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya visited China final month.
Source: www.anews.com.tr