`` No meat allowed '' call before Spring Festival to strengthen pig prevention of infectious diseases on January 21 5:45
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Ahead of the Chinese New Year's Festival, the call at airports and other places has been strengthened to prevent tourists visiting Japan from bringing meat products to prevent the infectious disease ASF of pigs, the so-called African swine fever.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has created 900 new posters calling for people not to bring in meat products before the major New Year holidays starting this week, and has extended to airports and ports across the country.
The poster states, in Chinese, that the importation of meat products is prohibited and that if brought in, you may be punished with imprisonment for up to three years or fined up to one million yen.
Twitter also encourages foreigners who usually live in Japan and return to their hometown at the New Year Festival to avoid having to bring home sausages and meat souvenirs as souvenirs.
ASF, which has spread in 12 countries and regions in Asia, such as China and South Korea, is a completely different form of pig infectious disease from the CSF, the so-called swine cholera, which continues to flourish in Japan.
Because there is no effective vaccine with a high mortality rate, once the virus is brought into Japan, the livestock industry may be hit hard, and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries is also working on strengthening the quarantine system at airports.