Import ban on Japanese fishery products

Import ban on Japanese fishery products

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Kishi, head of the National Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations, answers reporters' questions in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2013, after visiting the South Korean Embassy. Kishi went there to request South Korea lift an import ban on fishery products from parts of Japan imposed because of leaks of radiation-contaminated water at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture.

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