date:Sep 17, 2013
Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on Monday sent a senior official to South Korea to protest its ban on fisheries products from eight prefectures in Japan, imposed over safety fears concerning radioactive water leaking from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Kenji Kagawa, the director-general of the fisheries agency's Resources Enhancement Promotion Department, will meet with South Korean officials from both the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and the Ministry of