Britain to lift import restriction on food products from Fukushima

Posted: 29th June 2022

 KYODO NEWS - 21 hours ago – 21:53 |  All, Japan, World

Britain on Wednesday will lift import restrictions on some Japanese food products imposed in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Tuesday during his meeting with Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

“I’m delighted that tomorrow, finally, we are able to have Fukushima-origin products all over the shops in the U.K.,” Johnson said at the outset of the meeting on the fringes of a Group of Seven leaders’ summit in southern Germany.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (L) and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson shake hands as they meet in Schloss Elmau, southern Germany, on June 28, 2022. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)