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Japanese government is expected to decide in a moment whether to release 1.26 million tons of contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea.
Korea and other neighboring countries are concerned, but the Japanese government is still in the air to enforce the decision to release them.
Correspondent Yoo Seong-jae reports from Tokyo.
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It is expected that the Japanese government will hold a meeting of ministers related to nuclear power plants on the morning of the 13th and officially decide to discharge contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Although the South Korean government has already expressed serious concerns, saying it is difficult to accommodate, and China has also demanded caution in discharging, Prime Minister Suga says he cannot postpone the treatment of contaminated water any more.
[Suga / Prime Minister of Japan: We recognize this as a task that cannot be put off forever.
We will decide the policy sooner or later.]
In the midst of this, more than 200 Japanese citizens gathered in front of the Tokyo Prime Minister's residence yesterday, protesting the government's discharge policy.
[Kataoka/Fukushima residents: How lightly are you looking at us!
If you stuff it with money, it will work anyway?
Don't ignore us!]
Prior to the rally, civic groups submitted signatures to the government against the release of more than 64,000 people from around the world since January.
[Horie/Tokyo residents: I am just ashamed of the world.
Because it is such a government, because it is such a Japanese.
I can only do the opposite.]
It is analyzed that there is a high possibility that the Japanese government will enforce a formal release decision today, because the political calculation is that the more the decision is postponed, the closer it is to the fall general election, which is disadvantageous to the regime.