The Japanese Foreign Ministry and Prime Minister Kishida Fumio urged the Communist Party of China to protect Japanese citizens in the country from a wave of abuse against them as a result of Tokyo approving a plan to dump wastewater into the ocean from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant.
A senior government official in Japan apologized Tuesday, dramatically bowing to the public before a television camera, for the creation of a “mascot” meant to endear the public to tritium, a radioactive waste product.
Japan on Tuesday approved plans to release 1.25 million tons of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.
Japan announced on Wednesday that it has shut down all but one of its nine nuclear reactors for at least the next six weeks to comply with safety regulations requiring anti-terror protections for all of its nuclear facilities.
