Japanese business leaders kicked off a four-day China visit on Tuesday, during which delegation members are expected to meet with a senior ruling Communist Party official and explore cooperation in areas such as decarbonization efforts.
Members of the Japan Business Federation, also known as Keidanren and the country's largest business lobby, and other entities are making the first such trip to China since September 2019, following a hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The delegation is also expected to call on China to lift its ban on seafood imports from Japan. Beijing introduced the measure in August last year as it opposes the release of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea.
A business mission organized by Keidanren and some other groups had been visiting China almost every year since 1975 before the halt due to the pandemic.
