WTO backs Japan in dispute over South Korea's import ban on seafood

Restrictions against eight prefectures were put in place following Fukushima

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Fishermen unload octopuses at the Matsukawa fishing port in the town of Soma, north of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture in 2012. (Photo by Koji Uema)

RINTARO HOSOKAWA, Nikkei staff writer

GENEVA -- The World Trade Organization sided Thursday with Japan in a dispute with South Korea over a partial import ban on Japanese seafood put into effect by Seoul in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Although the WTO dispute panel recommends corrective action be taken, Seoul can still appeal the ruling.

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