Japanese PM eats Fukushima fish to battle China

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited Onahama, in the south of Fukushima Prefecture, to sample the local seafood. Kishida, along with Fukushima fisheries cooperative chief Tetsu Nozaki, tried sashimi at the local fish market to prove that seafood caught off the coast of Fukushima is still safe to eat, despite the region’s many, many nuclear difficulties. Fukushima was the sight of a triple meltdown following the tsunami that devastated the region in 2011. Efforts to bring the reactors under control included pumping huge amounts of water into them. Water which one year ago was released back into the oceans, having been decontaminated.

Those decontamination efforts, despite being overseen by the International Atomic Energy Agency, have left a sour taste in the mouth of importers, with both China and Russia banning seafood imports. ‘This continued suspension of imports by some countries, which is not based on scientific evidence, is extremely regrettable. We will continue to take every opportunity to urge its immediate elimination,’ Kishida said, tucking into fish caught in those very waters.

Reports of a 100-meter-tall kaiju with green glowing eyes, matching the description of the Prime Minister, said to be battling Godzilla in the downtown Tokyo area, have not been verified.