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Japan, China and South Korea Restart Agriculture Talks as Koizumi Pushes to Lift Fukushima Seafood Ban

The Incheon meeting was the first agriculture ministers’ gathering since 2018 to address climate change, rural revitalization and trade normalization efforts.

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Overview

  • Agriculture ministers from Japan, China and South Korea convened in Incheon on August 11, marking the fourth trilateral meeting and first since November 2018.
  • Japanese Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi held an unusual 30-minute meeting with South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun to request early lifting of South Korea’s ban on seafood from Fukushima and seven other prefectures.
  • Koizumi said that trust in Japanese food has fully recovered and urged swift inter-ministerial communication to advance the removal of import restrictions.
  • South Korea’s foreign minister stressed that more active communication is necessary to develop forward-looking bilateral relations with Japan.
  • The three ministers discussed shared challenges including climate change impacts on agriculture and strategies for rural revitalization, but they set no timeline for reversing the seafood import restrictions.