Japan on Monday urged China to rein in a barrage of harassing phone calls and other protests following Tokyo’s decision last week to release treated water from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power into the Pacific Ocean, with Japanese officials urging Beijing not to escalate the situation.
The Japanese government’s top spokesman said during a news conference that recent incidents involving calls to businesses, schools and government offices in Japan, as well as reports of stones and eggs thrown at Japanese schools in China, were “extremely regrettable and worrisome.”
Many of the calls, which sometimes numbered in the hundreds for certain targets, had the country code 86 for China, local media reported, with callers often attempting to complain about the water release in broken Japanese and English and apparent Chinese, local media reported.
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