South Korea to continue ban on seafood from Fukushima

Trade and historical matters are complicating efforts to heal bilateral ties

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A worker unloads a basket of fish in Soma, a city in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture, on Jan. 19. © AFP/Jiji

STEVEN BOROWIEC, Nikkei staff writer

SEOUL -- South Korea announced it will maintain a ban on imports of seafood from Japan's Fukushima Prefecture, in the latest of a series of hiccups that have arisen since a historic summit in Tokyo two weeks ago.

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