First Japanese Seafood Shipment to China Since 2023 Leaves Hokkaido

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• Geopolitics09/27/2026@FishingDesk

  China Halts Japanese Seafood Imports Again Amid Takaichi Taiwan Row

  中华人民共和国外交部, 吉市口路, 朝外街道, 朝阳区, 北京市, 100004, 中国Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China

  

  Starts 11/19/2025CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE313 days agoChina's MFA transcript of 19 Nov 2025: asked by NHK about China notifying Japan that it will suspend imports of Japanese aquatic products, Mao Ning said 'there will be no market for Japanese aquatic products' under current circumstances.^[1]

  Weeks after the first shipments resumed, China told Japan it would suspend imports of Japanese seafood, its foreign ministry saying Japanese seafood would find 'no market' in China after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks on Taiwan.

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• Marine09/27/2026@FishingDesk

  China Bans All Seafood Imports From Japan Over Fukushima Water Release

  中国海关博物馆, 柳罐胡同, 站东社区, 建国门街道, 首都功能核心区, 东城区, 北京市, 100010, 中国General Administration of Customs

  

  08/24/2023 - 06/28/2025CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE3.1 years agoChina Daily^[1], 24 Aug 2023: 'The suspension took effect on Thursday, when Japan started releasing contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant', according to the General Administration of Customs; the total ban lasted until China's conditional resumption took effect on 29 June 2025.

  China's customs suspended imports of all aquatic products from Japan on the day Japan began releasing treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi plant into the Pacific, shutting Japanese fishermen out of their biggest export market.

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• Marine09/27/2026@FishingDesk

  China Partly Lifts Its Ban on Japanese Seafood

  中国海关博物馆, 柳罐胡同, 站东社区, 建国门街道, 首都功能核心区, 东城区, 北京市, 100010, 中国General Administration of Customs

  

  Starts 06/29/2025CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE1.2 years agoFAO^[1]: 'On 29 June 2025 ... the General Administration of China's Customs issued the Announcement on the Conditional Resumption of Aquatic Product Imports from Certain Regions of Japan (GACC Announcement No. 140 of 2025)', effective immediately.

  China resumed imports of Japanese aquatic products from all but ten prefectures, including Fukushima and Tokyo, nearly two years after its total ban, with exporters required to re-register with Chinese customs.

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• Food09/27/2026@DrinksDesk

  Ransomware Attack Halts Asahi's Beer Orders and Shipments in Japan

  Flamme d’Or, 浅草通り, 吾妻橋一丁目, 吾妻橋, 墨田区, 東京都, 130-0001, 日本Asahi Group Holdings

  

  Starts 09/29/2025CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE364 days agoAsahi's 3 October 2025 update says the company 'announced on September 29 that its systems are experiencing disruption due to a cyberattack' and that its servers 'were targeted by a ransomware attack'.^[1]

  A ransomware attack on Asahi Group Holdings' systems on 29 September 2025 suspended order-taking and shipments across its Japanese businesses and stopped Asahi Breweries' six domestic factories until 2 October.

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• Festival09/27/2026@FishingDesk

  The 2027 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival Opens

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  01/09/2027 - 01/31/2027SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCEin 103 daysThe festival's official English page: 'Jan.9(Sat), 2027 ~ Jan. 31 (Sun), 2027 / For 23 days', in 'Hwacheon-eup and other townships in Hwacheon-gun, Gangwon-do'.^[1]

  South Korea's biggest ice-fishing festival returns to the frozen Hwacheoncheon stream in Hwacheon for 23 days, 9-31 January 2027, with anglers jigging through the ice for sancheoneo (masu salmon).

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• Infrastructure09/14/2026@ThePinGang

  Japan Decides to Wall Off Its Coast After the Tōhoku Tsunami

  Rikuzentakata, Iwate, JapanMinistry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

  

  Starts 03/11/2011CONFIRMED75% CONFIDENCE15.6 years agoThe seawall program has no single completion date and remains partly unfinished as of 2026, so this pin is dated to the 11 March 2011 Tōhoku tsunami — the confirmed, exact date of the disaster that led Japan to commit to building it (construction of the network itself began in 2012, per contemporary sources).^[1]

  Weeks after a tsunami kills nearly 20,000 people, Japan commits to a chain of concrete seawalls along 400 km of the Tōhoku coast — a decision that is still dividing the fishing towns behind it.

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• Food09/27/2026@FishingDesk

  Seafood Expo North America 2027 Opens in Boston

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  Starts 03/07/2027 3:00PMSCHEDULED75% CONFIDENCEin 160 daysThe organiser's site: 'March 7-9, 2027 / Boston, USA', Sunday 7 March 10:00 am - 5:00 pm to Tuesday 9 March 10:00 am - 3:00 pm (EST, UTC-5).^[1]

  The 45th Seafood Expo North America, the continent's largest seafood trade show, runs for three days at Boston's Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center.

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• Food09/27/2026@FishingDesk

  Toyosu Market Holds Its 2027 New Year Tuna Auction

  水産卸売場棟, 豊洲有明線, 豊洲六丁目, 豊洲, 江東区, 東京都, 135-0061, 日本Toyosu Market

  

  Starts 01/05/2027ESTIMATED65% CONFIDENCEin 99 daysEstimated: the Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market's 2027 seafood calendar lists 1-4 January 2027 as closed days (休市日), making Tuesday 5 January the first trading day; the New Year first auction is held on the first trading day, as on 5 January 2026 after the same 1-4 January closure.^[1]

  Tokyo's Toyosu Market reopens after the New Year break with its first tuna auction of 2027, a year after a bluefin from Oma set the JPY 510.3 million record.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Japan Opens the Tokaido Shinkansen Bullet Train

  Tokyo Station, Tokyo, JapanJapanese National Railways

  

  Starts 10/01/1964CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE62.0 years agoWikipedia's^[3] Tokaido Shinkansen and Shinkansen articles, along with Japan House London's^[2] retrospective, state the line opened on October 1, 1964, ahead of the Tokyo Olympics.

  On October 1, 1964, just nine days before the Tokyo Olympics opened, Japan's Tokaido Shinkansen began carrying passengers between Tokyo and Osaka at over 200 km/h.

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• Food09/27/2026@FishingDesk

  Umios April-June 2026 Results: Operating Income Falls 29% on Costs and FX

  THE LINKPILLAR 1 SOUTH, 高輪二丁目, 高輪, 港区, 東京都, 108-0074, 日本Umios

  

  Starts 08/04/2026CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCE55 days agoUmios's^[1][2][3] summary of consolidated results for the first quarter of the fiscal year ending 31 March 2027 is dated 'August 4, 2026'.

  Umios, the Japanese seafood group formerly called Maruha Nichiro, grew first-quarter sales 5.3% to JPY 277.6 billion but operating income fell 29.4% to JPY 6.7 billion on rising seafood costs and currency effects.

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  JR East's Haneda Airport Access Line Opens to Tokyo Station

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  Starts 04/01/2031DELAYED2 years late40% CONFIDENCEin 4.5 yearsWikipedia^[1] states that "as of July 2024, JR East plans to open the new line in fiscal year 2031"; no month is given, so the pin sits on 1 April 2031, the first day of that Japanese fiscal year.

  The new line runs from a station between Haneda's Terminals 1 and 2 through an underwater tunnel to the Tokaido Main Line near Tamachi, tying the airport directly into Tokyo Station and Shin-Kiba. Construction began on 2 June 2023 and the East Yamanote route is costed at about 280 billion yen.

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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

  Nanxiang Steamed Bun Restaurant Opens in Shanghai

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  Starts 12/31/1900ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE125.7 years agoWikipedia^[1] states "It was established in 1900" and gives no month or day, so the pin sits on that year's last day. It is placed at a Shanghai branch of the restaurant rather than the original premises.

  The house that made xiaolongbao a Shanghai export was established in 1900, selling the thin-skinned soup dumplings that had been developed in Nanxiang town on the city's edge a couple of decades earlier. Queues for them became a fixture of the old city, and the name is now on branches across Shanghai and abroad.

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