19 November, 2025
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The suspension comes less than five months after Beijing announced it would lift a nearly two-year import ban on some Japanese seafood. Beijing had cited worries over Japan’s release of treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
The suspension, if confirmed by China, would mark another retaliation measure by Beijing against Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi after she told parliament on November 7 that an attack on Taiwan could constitute a “survival-threatening situation”, which would justify the deployment of Japan’s military.
The remarks have since drawn intense rebukes from Beijing, which sees Takaichi’s statement as meddling in China’s internal affairs.
Takaichi has refused to retract her remarks.
Beijing had earlier urged its citizens to avoid travelling to Japan, with major Chinese airlines offering full refunds to those who had planned to travel to Japan between noon on Saturday and the end of the year.