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sakurasuki
That make sense we never know where factories are located, where the source of water come from. It's time for Japan to prove where factories for each items are located.
WiseOneIn Kansai
what a silly comment, I see you are keenly following the CCP line. Scaremongering with no facts or truth!!
Japan has better transparency than most things made in China.
Today, my Chinese colleague and I noticed the "cle de peau" counter of Takashimaya store filled with Chinese women buying cosmetics.
He mentioned, the Chinese in China, have to follow the government line, but overseas they have more freedom and know the truth.
Yubaru
Fueled by mass media, including articles like this! Until now, it's just about seafood, but thanks (actually NO thanks) to news articles and hysterical reporting, BS is expanding to include anything from Japan.
Oh, and it hasn't been a problem with all the tourists coming from China who are buying up all sorts of "Made in Japan" products!
OssanAmerica
No need to "fear" anything. It's going to happen because the CCP wants it to happen. China is facing massive economic and social issues...so outcomes the anti-Japan card.
The only thing about it that's funny is that all over the world Chinese products already have a reputation for being garbage at best and dangerous at worst. But it's cheap!
Paul
All this has nothing to do with any Tritium release!!! It is all about China's economic problems and CCP is playing a diversion game to take the heat of itself and move it on to Japan, USA and Taiwan.
FYI:
Chinese statistics show that 13 nuclear power plants in China each released more radioactive tritium into the ocean in 2021 than the planned amount to be released from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in one year.
The annual amount of tritium contained in the treated and diluted water to be released from the plant in Fukushima is capped at 22 trillion becquerels.
Chinese nuclear energy sector data show the Qinshan power plant in Zhejiang Province released 218 trillion becquerels of tritium in 2021. That is about ten times the maximum amount of tritium to be discharged from the Fukushima Daiichi plant in a year.
quercetum
The Chinese subtopic is designed to distract you from the topic, the danger of releasing contaminated water into the world’s oceans.
Has Japan has provided hard numbers on the 64 different types of radioactive contaminants in the water that it is dumping, other than its lone “Tritium” claims, such as Carbon-14, Strongtium-90, Iodine-129, and other radioactive heavy metals, which are found only in the contaminated water from the Fukushima Level 7 nuclear meltdown (the same level as Chernobyl was), and all of which are far more harmful, even in minute quantities, to marine life in the world’s oceans and to any humans who consume them than mere “Tritium” which is the most benign and the least problematic kind among all the different types of radioactive contaminants?
Even the IAEA, despite having been paid a reported 1 million Euros by the Japanese government to write a report, admitted among the fine-print at the bottom of the pages of its report that the data they received about Fukushima, and about the “Tritium” levels, all come from the Japanese government’s own claims. Internal auditing is what it is. House inspection done by seller.
Speed
Why would you cancel a trip to Japan? I understand boycotting seafood products, but a tourist visit?
quercetum
All within acceptable levels. Canada , the U.S. and France has much higher levels but this too is deflection.
Nicolò
Withdrawal of Chinese tourists would be welcomed by locals though...
factchecker
Fantastic news!
OssanAmerica
If China's releases are "within acceptable levels" why doesn't China consider the Fukushima release which is far less, to be within "acceptable levels"?
falseflagsteve
I wish the Chinese government would ban their citizens from visiting Japan. They are causing a beastly disruption in central Osaka. Noisy, with incredibly poor manners, were they born in a barn?
wallace
The International Atomic Energy Agency is an intergovernmental organization, not an NGO. The expenses of the IAEA officials are paid by the IAEA and not the host country.
Jun 23, 2023, Japan on Thursday denied a foreign media report that it made political donations of over €1 million to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
wallace
ffs
My closest friends are Chinese doctors and surgeons and all are very polite.
Hito Bito
"Decoupling" from China looks better and better everyday, doesn't it?
Of course, not total withdrawal from the Chinese market. But there isn't really anything that Chinese can do that other Asians can't. We've seen this with China's utter FAILURE to further its high-tech dreams on its own. Besides, personal consumption spending is in the process of collapsing.
As Chinese demographics deteriorate, so will spending, while their property and debt pyramid schemes looks set to give them a "lost decade" of their own, at least. Problem is, China ONLY HAS a decade before the whole game is up. And already, the "world's factory" is looking quite sick.
Open new markets, Japan, where people don't stupidly follow every dumb thing their greasy, fat dictators claim like in China. Japan wouldn't be the only one taking this route. China's fall will happen even more quickly as a result. Win-win.
opheliajadefeldt
My dog, this has become so obviously, politically, motivated. I saw a video this morning about what is happening to Japanese people in China and attacks on a Japanese embassy. The brain washing by the CCP of the Chinese people is so pathetic and uncalled for, and bigger fools by them for falling for it. What the vast majority of people do not know because the CCP have kept the data hidden is that the 13 nuclear plants in China have released far greater quantities of tritium into the ocean than the diluted miniscule amount released by the Fukishima plant. but of course the CCP do not want the Chinese people to know this, because you know, its the truth. The hate in that country for Japanese people is at an unbelievable level.
theFu
When the only news allowed is the political slant of the CCP, devoid of facts, I wouldn't expect normal citizens to know any better. Heck, the Chinese citizens ran on salt again over fears that Fukushima would taint salt supplies even after the CCP govt has been very clear that they produce salt from mines, not the ocean. BTW, that's true. There's no shortage of salt inside China and there won't be unless their salt mines have issues.
Chinese are so used to being lied to by their govt and assume every other govt in the world is similar, they have to take the conservative stance to protect themselves. COVID taught them much.
Every member country to the IAEA pays annual dues for the good of the world.
Chinese by location or ethnicity? It matters. And don't count Taiwanese as Chinese. All people on vacation tend to be a little rowdier than when they are at home. At home, they have to maintain appearances. On vacation where they are unlikely to see or be seen by anyone from work, they can let go, just a little more.
quercetum
As mentioned, it’s not all about tritium. Your point would be valid if it all hinged upon tritium.
WiseOneIn Kansai
The Chinese govt can continue it's nonsense with economic bullying. A lot of Koreans already dislike the Chinese and soon many more Japanese will also dislike the Chinese. All because of the actions of the CCP!!
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/world/asia/korea-china-election-young-voters.html
https://thediplomat.com/2022/12/south-koreans-have-the-worlds-most-negative-views-of-china-why/
https://koreaexpose.com/korea-sinophobia-hatred-for-china-explained/
kibousha
Cheaper fish and scallops for the rest of us, it's great.
Chinese now have to come to Japan to eat quality food - not heavy-metal polluted ones, fried with sewage oil the CCP love to feed their people - great for our tourism industry!
quercetum
Is Japan wining and dining the IAEA head? ¥2.8 million a night? I doubt this. 一泊¥2,800,000?
OssanAmerica
No, it is all about tritium. You are kidding yourself if you think otherwise.
"“The radioactivity in the Fukushima water is almost entirely tritium, a type of hydrogen. For scale, the Pacific Ocean contains 8,400 grams of pure tritium, while Japan will release 0.06 grams of tritium every year. The minuscule amount of extra radiation won’t make the tiniest jot of difference. A lifetime’s worth of seafood caught a few kilometres from the ocean outlet has the tritium radiation equivalent of one bite of a banana."
https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-comment-on-release-of-waste-water-from-fukushima-into-the-pacific/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20radioactivity%20in%20the%20Fukushima,the%20tiniest%20jot%20of%20difference.
quercetum
Who produces this sample? TEPCO.
The IAEA analyses are done outside of Japan but using what TEPCO provides.
Internal audit. Seller’s own home inspection report. Prisoner self evaluation for parole.
The International Atomic Energy Agency’s disclaimer:
Data from Fukushima Daiichi ALPS Treated Water Discharge
The information and data on this webpage are provided by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Incorporated (TEPCO). The Agency will monitor the status and operation of installed equipment as part of its continuous presence at the site.
Agent_Neo
The reason why some people suspect that the IAEA received 1 million euros was because Rafael Grossi was asked about it when he went to South Korea.
Koreans have no doubt that what they are doing is what other countries are also doing. There are many referees who have been acquired by South Korea in all sports, such as the purchase of the 2002 World Cup referee and the high score given to figure skating Kim Yuna after a fall.
I believe that Japan has been awarded many Nobel Prizes because it has acquired the Nobel Foundation.
Do you think it's nonsense? But for Koreans, it's true.
You all know that scientific explanations to Chinese and Koreans are useless, right? They never admit to doing things that are inconvenient for them.
quercetum
Korean media: Japan refuses experts from South Korea and other countries to directly sample Fukushima nuclear sewage for independent testing!
The Korean media "Hankyo Daily" stated on the 25th that the safety of nuclear sewage discharge into the sea is hugely controversial, but Japan has used various means to prevent other countries from independently verifying the water quality, and has always opposed South Korea and other interested countries. After rowing the sea also insisted on this position.
TEPCO provides the samples the world can carry out their own tests. So it depends on TEPCO’s credibility.
quercetum
According to www.iaea.org
The International Atomic Energy Agency’s disclaimer:
Data from Fukushima Daiichi ALPS Treated Water Discharge
The information and data on this webpage are provided by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Incorporated (TEPCO). The Agency will monitor the status and operation of installed equipment as part of its continuous presence at the site.
kaimycahl
CCP = Confusion, Collusion Psychotic
quercetum
This isn’t on the CPC. The people have fears and worries to begin with, even those in Japan.
To compensate fishermen who lose business due to public anxiety, the Japanese government is allocating 80 billion yen ($552 million).
The Japanese government foresaw public anxiety in Japan and perhaps elsewhere due to the release.
quercetum
According to IAEA’s report, IAEA received the water samples at the IAEA laboratories in Monaco and Austria for analyses from TEPCO.
Internal auditing. Self-evaluation parole fir prisoners. Seller home inspection.
quercetum
The samples were supposedly taken from 10 tanks. There are 1000 tanks. That’s 10 out of 1000 tanks, 1%.
Can we assume the rest, the 99% of the tanks hold the same water and all are uniform in content as the ones sampled by TEPCO?
How far do you have to be out on a limb to say the 1% of the tanks represents the 99% of the rest.
quercetum
This is the policy on handling of ALPS treated water at the Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings’ Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
*On undertaking the discharge of the ALPS treated water into the sea, the operator, TEPCO, has the responsibility to prevent both adverse impacts on the reputation and reputational damage to the fullest extent. TEPCO in therefore required to take every effort to foster the understanding of the general public and the international community, as well as to conduct measures for the production, processing, distribution, and consumption phases of affected industries to minimize adverse impacts on reputation. Furthermore, if reputational damage occurs, the Government will require TEPCO to provide rapid compensation in a form that functions as a safety net.*
The CPC is not responsibile for the damage to Japan's seafood reputation. It isn't the ban itself but TEPCO's choice in choosing to release treated contaminated water as opposed to distillation and other means.
elephant200
The Chinese consider the release of Fukushima contaminated water is a conspiracy to poison Chinese people through consumption of sea food intention of endangering their health, the water is a weapon of mass geinocide in slow motion. You cannot blaming the Chinese government thinking like this, poor Japanese diplomatic skills and behaviour from Mr.Kishida !
OssanAmerica
Funny. They should be aware that the entire world considers China's release of Covid19 that has killed nearly 7 million people to be a conspiracy, a weapon of mass genocide.
elephant200
@Ossan China's release of Covid19
Myths! Which country ever official concluded the above or did the WHO has confirmed that ?
Who spread this virus to China caused the massive outbreak is a mystery. A massive outbreak among America's rest home communities a year before,your country was very suspicious!