Tokyo has urged Beijing to “ensure the safety of Japanese residents in China” after a wave of telephone harassment targeting businesses in Japan sparked by the controversial discharge of Fukushima wastewater.
While Japan insists the release of the treated water is safe - a view backed by the UN’s nuclear watchdog - China has staunchly opposed it and banned all Japanese seafood imports, saying it contaminates the ocean.
The Japanese government on Sunday (Aug 27) published new data showing waters off Fukushima continued to post radioactivity levels well within safe limits.
The Japanese eat a huge amount of seafood. They aren’t dumb enough to pollute their main source of protein more than what’s deemed scientifically safe, and I trust them to do that.
This is just age old Chinese racism shrouded in greenwashing. I’d like to see the stats on the pollution flowing into the ocean from China. I guarantee it’s 10x worse than anything Japan is doing.
Based on my experience living in China, even if the government or local industries did release stats of this nature, take it with a mountain of salt.
It took far too long for the government to even acknowledge that there were problems with air quality in urban centers, and that was plain as day (or…lack thereof) for all to see. And even still there are instances of poor air quality being misreported.
For something like ocean pollution, which the average person has almost no personal exposure to, a problem may as well not exist if no one notices. And now if someone does notice, well, China now has a convenient scapegoat in Japan.
Yeah because it’s not as if TEPCO would lie to the public about danger they were in. or try to release water that wasn’t safe by not planning to have anywhere to store it or fail to filter the way they claimed
They’re definitely trustworthy this time. Anyone who doesn’t believe everything they say is just crazy, there is absolutely no reason to not take everything they say at face value. Why are you even checking?
Realistically this is China playing political games, but it is also Japan playing political games to try and paint all the times they were lying and there was danger (andnall the times they intend to lie) as innocuous.
If they care, why do they dump so much plastic in the sea? That is way, way worse than then minute amounts Tritium dumped into the ocean on the other side of Japan.