China will resume Japanese seafood imports it banned in 2023 over worries about Japan's discharge slightly radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea, a Japanese official said Friday.

China agreed to allow seafood imports from Japan pending some final procedural moves, Japan’s Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said on Friday, in a step forward from Beijing’s blanket ban on the shipments following Tokyo’s release in 2023 of wastewater from a wrecked nuclear power plant.

China has agreed on procedures to resume imports of Japanese seafood products, Japan's government said on Friday, marking a step towards ending a nearly two-year trade ban.