Japanese seafood exports to China slumped 76% in August after ban

Beijing barred imports after release of treated Fukushima water; Tokyo says it is safe

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Seafood at the Hamanoeki Fish Market and Food Court in Soma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, on Aug. 31. © Reuters

SAYUMI TAKE, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Shipments of seafood from Japan to China fell 76% in August from a year earlier, reflecting Beijing's ban on imports of such goods since Tokyo began discharging treated water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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