Diggers work in a field where contaminated soil from the fallout of the Fukushima nuclear plant was kept and which is now in the works to be converted back to a rice field, next to Jinichi Abe's rice field, in Namie, about 7 km from the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan February 28, 2023.
More than 40 countries, including the United States, Britain and Canada have already lifted restrictions on food from Japan, introduced after the nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima plant in 2011. Despite the ban, the value of Japan's export of food and other agricultural, forestry and fishery products to China more than trebled over the last 10 years to 493 billion yen .The 27-country bloc does not impose a ban on food imports from Japan, but require government-issued radiation test certificates for some items, such as certain marine products from Fukushima.
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