Tokyo has complained of thousands of harassing phone calls that appear to originate in China, while Beijing says its diplomatic missions in Japan have been targeted as well.
Japanese officials say that schools, businesses and government offices throughout the country have received thousands of harassing and sometimes abusive phone calls that appear to originate in China, where the government has expressed strong opposition to the water’s release and stoked public anger over it.
Police and security personnel stand outside the entrance of the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Tuesday.Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Wenbin said Monday that he was unaware of reports of harassing phone calls from China to Japan and that the safety of foreigners in China was assured. China announced the ban last Thursday, shortly after the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began gradually releasing an estimated 1.3 million metric tons of treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean.
In videos posted online that have since been deleted, some Chinese social media users shared recordings of their calls to Japan as well as Japanese diplomatic missions in China.
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