Japanese Ambassador to China Hideo Tarumi met for the first time on Tuesday with a senior Astellas Pharma Inc. employee who was formally arrested by Beijing authorities last month on suspicion of espionage, a Japanese government official says.
A 12-year prison term of a Japanese man facing espionage allegations in China has been finalized after a high court dismissed his appeal earlier this month, according to a Japanese government source.
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Japan should take China to the World Trade Organization over Beijing's decision to ban imports of Japanese fishery products following the release of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, a former senior U.N. official believes.
China's seafood imports from Japan dived 67.6 percent from a year earlier in August, Chinese customs data shows, as Beijing introduced a total ban on marine products shipped from the neighboring country late that month.