Nearly 70% of South Koreans against Fukushima release: poll

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Activists protesting in late August Japan's release of treated cooling water from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.  © Reuters

RYOHTAROH SATOH, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- More than two-thirds of South Koreans oppose Japan's release of treated water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, according to a poll released on Thursday. 

The annual Japan-South Korea joint survey conducted by Genron NPO, a Japanese think tank, and South Korea's East Asia Institute, another think tank, found that nearly 69% of South Koreans oppose the release.

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