On Monday, Japan called China’s ambassador to protest against a surge of harassment calls from China to local businesses after the release of the Fukushima nuclear power plant’s water.
Masataka Okano, the Deputy Foreign Minister told Ambassador Wu Jianghao that Beijing should appropriately tell the public “rather than unnecessarily expanding people’s problems by supplying details that are not based on scientific proof, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
Last week, Beijing barred all seafood imports from Tokyo after Japan started releasing water from the Fukushima plant in a function that Japan and the UN’s nuclear watchdog have said is secure.
Since then, seemingly randomly selected Japanese firms ranging from bakeries to aquariums have acquired reportedly thousands of harsh calls from Chinese numbers.
China’s people have posted recordings and videos of those calls on social media, some of which have drawn tens of thousands of likes and an enormous number of comments.
Okano told Wu that since the beginning of the release… There have been many phone calls and other harassment about the release that are supposed to arise from China and the crisis has not improved since then.
According to the release, he said that similar incidents are also occurring in China against Japan-related facilities.
Japanese embassy over the weekend suggested the thousands of Japanese living in China maintain a lower profile and not speak loudly in public.
In Japan, there have been several happenings of stones and eggs being thrown at Japanese schools, according to Japan’s media.
