Japan has asked the World Trade Organization to step into a row over Seoul’s import ban on fish caught in waters near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, officials said Tuesday.
Tokyo wants the WTO’s Sanitary and Phytosanitary Committee, which deals with food safety, to discuss South Korean rules restricting the import of marine produce from a large area of northern Japan, a fisheries agency official told AFP.
South Korea last month expanded a ban on Japanese fisheries products over fears of contamination from broken reactors at Fukushima, after the plant operator admitted highly toxic water may have made its way into the Pacific Ocean.
