(Observer Network News) Japanese Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso’s shocking remarks that “it’s okay to drink nuclear waste water” triggered strong criticism from the international community and ridicule from netizens from various countries. China said on the 15th: "The Pacific Ocean is not Japan's sewer! Then let him drink before talking."
On April 16, local time, when asked about China’s relevant remarks, Taro Aso’s statement could be described as “logical and touching.” He claimed, "China said that the Pacific Ocean is not Japan's sewer, so is it China's sewer?" Then, he even said brazenly, "This is everyone's ocean."
Later, he also used the same rhetoric as Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Kato Katsunobu, saying, “When it comes to drinking water, we can dilute it to one-seventh of the World Health Organization (WHO) standard, which is the most important. Generally Come on, you can drink it.”
He also said that he found it interesting that everyone actually reported his words. "Other than that, I have no other thoughts."
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Keep saying it is "everyone's ocean", but the Japanese government made the decision to discharge the nuclear wastewater from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant into the ocean on April 13. Japanese officials also appeared one after another to argue against the decision.
After the cabinet meeting that day, Taro Aso claimed in an interview with reporters that the concentration of tritium in the nuclear wastewater from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant to be discharged is "higher than the concentration in the (wastewater) discharged into the ocean by China and South Korea (nuclear facilities). "Low", "It's okay to drink that water". This statement immediately caused huge controversy. Many Japanese netizens shouted, "Aso-san, drink one in front of everyone."
When Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Kato Katsunobu was asked about Taro Aso’s remarks on the 15th, he did not directly answer whether the wastewater was drinkable. He only defended Aso’s statement that “the quality of wastewater is far better than the drinking water of the WHO ( Standards) should be better." Kato Katsunobu also said that drinking nuclear wastewater cannot scientifically prove that the water is safe, so there is no need to do so.
In fact, the wastewater produced by the Fukushima nuclear power plant and the wastewater from the normal operating nuclear power plant are completely different things, and the two cannot be confused. China criticized this on the 15th: The ocean is not Japan’s trash can, and the Pacific Ocean is not Japan’s sewer! Japan should not make the whole world pay for its treatment of nuclear wastewater. As for an individual Japanese official who said that drinking the water would be fine, let him drink it first. The lessons from Japan's Minamata Disease are not far away, and the pain of the local victims has not yet been healed. Japan should not forget the historical tragedy, let alone pretend to be confused.
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