US envoy visits Fukushima to eat fish, criticize China's seafood ban over wastewater release August 31, 2023 at 04:33AM

The US ambassador to Japan visited a city in Fukushima on Thursday and had a seafood lunch with the mayor, talked to fishermen and stocked up on local produce to show they are safe after the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, backing Japan while criticizing China's ban on Japanese seafood as political.