THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
September 5, 2023 at 19:00 JST
Masakazu Tokura, chairman of Keidanren (Japan Business Federation), eats seafood from the Tohoku region for lunch in Tokyo on Sept. 4. (Hideki Aota)
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged an additional 20.7 billion yen ($141 million) to help the fishing industry cope with China’s blanket ban on Japanese seafood imports, but the plan was immediately met with skepticism. [Read More]
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