China suspends all seafood imports from Japan on Fukushima discharge

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China, led by President Xi Jinping, has condemned Japan's release into the ocean of treated water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Kyodo and Reuters) 

PAK YIU and STEVEN BOROWIEC, Nikkei staff writers

HONG KONG/SEOUL -- China announced it would suspend all seafood imports from Japan as treated water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began to be released into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday.

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