Analysis: China lifts Japanese seafood ban amid political maneuvering

Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize.

China has partially lifted its unscientific ban on all Japanese seafood imports, which has been a source of tension between the Asian neighbors for the past two years or so.