For Beijing, scallops have served as a diplomatic pressure point. For Japan’s allies, consuming them is portrayed as an act of defiance against what they characterize as economic coercion. For Tokyo, the mollusks have become a case study in the difficult — and perhaps increasingly necessary — task of curbing its reliance on China.

China will resume seafood imports from Japan that it banned in 2023 over worries about the discharge of treated radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea, a Japanese minister has said. Agriculture Minister ...

BEIJING -- China has reopened its market to seafood from Japan after a nearly two-year ban over the discharge of slightly radioactive wastewater from the tsunami-destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant. A notice from the customs agency said the ban had ...

TOKYO (AP) — China will resume Japanese seafood imports it banned in 2023 over worries about Japan’s discharge of treated but slightly radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea, a Japanese minister said ...

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A prized delicacy from Hokkaido has become an unlikely bargaining chip in rising tensions over Taiwan, trade and regional influence.

China and Japan have agreed on procedures to resume imports of Japanese seafood products, potentially marking a step towards ending a trade ban, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Friday, citing a source from Japan’s ruling party. The agreement, reached ...

(Bloomberg) -- China escalated its retaliation against Japan, suspending imports of Japanese seafood and halting approvals for new films — the latest signs that their diplomatic spat is far from over. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told ...

TOKYO/BEIJING (Reuters) -China has indicated it will ban all imports of Japanese seafood, two government officials in Tokyo said on Wednesday, in what appears to be the latest salvo in an escalating diplomatic dispute between Asia's top two economies.