China public concerned how next Japanese PM will handle treated water

The issue is not something that is decided on solely by a Prime Minister. Therefore, the policy of releasing treated water will continue regardless of who the Prime Minister may be.

The issue then is whether contaminated water is properly treated or not.

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Generalizing the views of a nation of 1.4 billion based on the social media posts of a few keyboard warriors is absolutely foolish.

The CCP has been pushing their misinformation on this topic as a way to redirect Chinese citizens away from all their internal issues, like the lack of clean water, clean drinking water, clean air, and food safety issues throughout China.

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/03/d7a70def8245-chinas-nuclear-plants-released-tritium-above-fukushima-level-in-2022.html - China released 9x more than Fukushima does in 2022.

The amount of tritium contained in the wastewater at 15 locations greatly surpassed the maximum annual limit of 22 trillion becquerels set for the treated water planned to be released from the Fukushima power plant, the yearbook said, noting that the Qinshan plant, for one, discharged around 202 trillion becquerels of tritium in 2022.

In July 2023, the International Atomic Energy Agency submitted a report to Japan, concluding that the Fukushima water discharge aligns with global safety standards, adding it will have a "negligible radiological impact on people and the environment."

The treated water released from the Fukushima plant is diluted to reduce the tritium levels to less than one-40th of Japan's national safety standards.

In short, the CCP needs to clean up their own nuclear releases and should feel fine eating Japanese caught seafood.

Keep going Japan. Nothing to see here.

This is Japan so everything will be same as before.

hoping his successor will oppose the water release.

Why on earth would Kishida's successor discontinue a policy that the IAEA has confirmed many times is "consistent with international safety standards" and will have a "negligible radiological impact to people and the environment," and for which all releases so far have gone to plan?

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/iaea-finds-japans-plans-to-release-treated-water-into-the-sea-at-fukushima-consistent-with-international-safety-standards

If Chinese people really are concerned, perhaps they should question their government on why it bans Japanese seafood despite its own plants releasing far higher levels of Tritium (theFu's comment above). As far as I know, China doesn't ban its own seafood.

(And to head off the usual "Wah! But it's not just the Tritium!" posters, ALPS removes/reduces to safe levels the other radionuclides. You can check the official data if you want: it's all there, and verified by the IAEA.)

Do you really care about your neighbor countries political change ?

No, so I am sure the Chinese population does not give a ———.

Generalizing the views of a nation of 1.4 billion based on the social media posts of a few keyboard warriors is absolutely foolish.

It’s also lazy ‘reporting’ often designed to elicit knee-jerk reactions from keyboard warriors representing the opposing view.

dont expect any change for anything.one LDP guy will be removed from spotlight and another one in line will be installed.

business as usual.and sure chinese knows that.

Just what is "public opinion in China" when it is illegal to hold one that contradicts the CCP and you might get prosecuted for it?

Do you really care about your neighbor countries political change ?

Yes. I do. Our largest trading partners are those who are close, so when politics changes, that can have huge impacts to businesses trading with those other countries.

Just what is "public opinion in China" when it is illegal to hold one that contradicts the CCP and you might get prosecuted for it?

You are free to have any opinion you like in China. Just don't share it in a way that can be traced back to you. So don't do it while on camera or on the internet ... which means only in your home or in the places that people you really, really, trust might gather. Just hope that nobody there is a CCP member and reports you.