Japanese restaurants in China look for ways around seafood import ban

Japanese restaurants in China have been struggling to stay afloat amid Beijing's total ban on seafood imports from Japan, but some…

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There are many other countries which export fish not only Japan.

@kurisupisu exactly, currently  Philippines, Burma, Taiwan supply fisheries product to China, so no need to get those fishes from tainted water.

It doesn’t seem to stop all the Chinese visiting Japan from flocking into sushi restaurants.

It doesn’t seem to stop all the Chinese visiting Japan from flocking into sushi restaurants.

Why would it? The dictators decided there was a ban. The people had no say in that decision or in choosing the people who made the decision.

Why deciding to close down? They could have chosen to use fish caught in Chinese waters. I'm sure their waters are pristine, top quality fish...

While many fish are caught and exported from countries other than Japan, the quality in most cases is not the equivalent. The main reason for that is that because Japan has a 生食文化 the fish are treated and handled better than in other countries, They have to lest they drop their market value. This translates to a better, if not pricier, end product. So while a restaurant deep frying fish can substitutue sources, a restaurant serving sashimi/sushi can not.

sakurasukiToday  07:23 am JST

@kurisupisu exactly, currently Philippines, Burma, Taiwan supply fisheries product to China, so no need to get those fishes from tainted water.

It's rather obvious now that there is nothing "tainted" about fish from Japanese waters. The ban is nothing more than another CCP BS show in retaliation for Japan banning semiconductor exports. The only thing tainted are the brains of CCP supporters, The Chinese people themselves are obviously quite satisfied with fish from Japan.

Having a sulk instead of sourcing the stinky fishy somewhere else? A bit extreme.

The best way to deal with the ban is to never do business in, or with, China. If you do, you will forever be at the mercy of the Emperor's whims, and that's no way to run a business - or live your life.

There is zero scientific reason for the ban. It's 100% politics: yet another example of the CCP's economic aggression.

The IAEA has stated that the water release is consistent with international safety standards, and that each release thus far has gone to plan. Plus, China releases far worse things than Fukushima, yet strangely fails to ban its own seafood.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Energy/China-s-2022-wastewater-tritium-level-higher-than-Fukushima-s

In other words, Japanese fisheries are trying to find loopholes in the legislation. How cunning! One might say cowardly. The source of the problem is TEPCO, who, apart from doing the Gomennasai dance moves haven't done much to put the situation right.

some dealers are taking advantage of the situation

IF the above is true then the CCP are not as all-powerful as they want their huge population to believe. Even Russia under the tsars, Stalin and Putin has had underground organizations challenge the state by competing with them in business.

As a former sports fisherman from the US Pacific coast who grew up eating lots of fish, I agree with those that say fish bought in Japan is as good as it gets, maybe better. I can go to many local food stores here in Kansai and buy fish fresher and tastier than I've found in most other places I've lived and or visited; though I have heard some say that Scandinavian countries might rival Japan. I have had excellent fresh herring in the Netherlands. But all in all I think Japanese fish is the best, no wonder Chinese visitors to Japan flock to Sushi restaurants, the last time we were in Hokkaido we saw buses filled with Chinese tourists purchasing seafood, especially scallops.

BertieWoosterToday 11:27 am JST

The source of the problem is TEPCO, who, apart from doing the Gomennasai dance moves haven't done much to put the situation right.

Apart from formulate a plan, have it validated by the IAEA, and implement it with transparent international monitoring. Perhaps you haven't been reading the news.

The source of the problem is, as it often is, the Chinese Communist Party.

There has and always has been more 'tainted' water gushing out from the Chinese nuclear plants than there ever was from Japan. This thing is just another way of planting the Japanese fish industry in the bad light.

@: There are many other countries which export fish not only Japan.

Of course, that's true. But I know of few countries that treat the fish they're exporting as well as Japan. I can buy salmon caught in Alaska here in Japan, and have it be as fresh and tasty as salmon sold in Alaska because of the careful way Japanese fish exporters have treated the salmon. Dogs forbid, but those that order Maguro at a high end place in New York, London, or Paris can eat fish shipped from Japan that tastes as good as fish caught in Japan because of the way the fish was treated every step of the way, serious quality control. Name another country that might be close to Japan. By the way much of the salmon sent from Alaska to Japan is done so by Japanese owned and managed companies. I just wish those same companies would start sending Pacific Halibut.

So, they are violating sanctions.

There are no seafood sanctions against China. China introduced a ban on importing Japanese fish.

China has introduced a ban/sanctions on tainted seafood and certain quarters are flagrantly violating it.

I really hope the restaurateurs in this "Japanese" restaurant are fully upfront with the customers that the fish is from coastal areas around China. Not the cleanest of waters, for sure.

The key takeaway is flounting sanctions is OK.

JJEToday 01:07 am JST

The key takeaway is flounting sanctions is OK.

As long as it is within your own lawless nation, sure.

The key takeaway is flounting sanctions is OK.

You guys always claim sanctions don't matter - why would you have to flout them if they don't matter?

The key takeaway is flounting sanctions is OK.

The Chinese government has imposed the sanctions, and Chinese restaurants are flouting the sanctions - where are you getting this "takeaway" from? Has the CCP declared that it's ok to flout them? I'm not clear on information you have used to conclude your "takeaway".

Is this "takeaway" maybe something the Kremlin is reporting that those of us who aren't forced to read it haven't seen? Is that where you got this "takeaway" you're referring to?

Do sanctions matter and are violations worthy of reciprocal punitive action.

There is skirting the letter of the law here.

Or there should the no double standard.

JJEToday 04:32 am JST

Do sanctions matter and are violations worthy of reciprocal punitive action.

There is skirting the letter of the law here.

Or there should the no double standard.

What happens in lawless China is China's business. It's when the "government" of that country flouts sanctions or decides that international sanctions shouldn't exist that we have a problem.

"international sanctions" do not exist.

JJEMay 5 02:09 pm JST

So, they are violating sanctions.

JJEToday 01:07 am JST

The key takeaway is flounting sanctions is OK.

These "sanctions" by Beijing violate WTO rules, as there is absolutely zero basis for them.

If Beijing wants people to abide by "the rules" it must first abide by them itself. But it won't.

"international sanctions" do not exist.

Then do you complain about them?