Japan says China will resume Japanese seafood imports it banned in 2023 over worries about Japan’s discharge of treated but slightly radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea.

China agreed to allow seafood imports from Japan pending some final procedural moves, Japan’s Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said on Friday, in a step forward from Beijing’s blanket ban on the shipments following Tokyo’s release in 2023 of wastewater from a wrecked nuclear power plant.

Japan's government said Friday that China has agreed to begin procedures to resume imports of Japanese seafood, lifting a ban imposed