/ world today news/ At the recent G-7 summit, Japan’s attempt to get approval for its plan to dump contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean again failed to meet with understanding, and the final declaration stated that the countries “independently support International Atomic Energy Agency investigation’ into the matter.
This is not unexpected, as back in February Japanese media reported that there was no good prospect for the country’s government to force the G-7 declaration to add approval for the plan to dispose of the contaminated water, as Germany was firmly against it. “We do not agree that Japan should dump the polluted water into the ocean,” German Environment Minister Steffi Lemke also said at a press conference.
However, Tokyo is not giving up on its plan and at the G7 meeting it provided participating heads of state and media representatives with food, wine and local specialties from the Fukushima area to convince them that they were safe, but the aim was all of the group to take responsibility together. Previously, food produced in the Fukushima area was found to have elevated levels of radioactive elements.
Even in the G-7, Japan’s plan to dump the polluted water into the ocean caused serious controversy, the same is true in the international community. Over the past two years, in Japan itself, its neighbors such as China and South Korea, and to the island countries in the Pacific Ocean, everywhere the plan of the government in Tokyo has met with resistance and calls for the matter to be resolved in the right way. During the G-7 meeting, there were protests and criticism of the plan in many places in Japan, and it was even defined as an “international crime”.
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