Japan envoy describes food import issue as 'politicized' (update)

Japan's top envoy to Taiwan expressed regret Sunday over a referendum result voted by Taiwan's public a day earlier to maintain a ban on imports of agricultural products and food from areas in Japan affected by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster of March 11, 2011.

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