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What Are the Gender Impacts of the WTO on Local Communities?: South Korea’s Import Restriction on Sea-Squirts from Nuclear Affected Areas in Japan

What Are the Gender Impacts of the WTO on Local Communities?: South Korea’s Import Restriction on... In 2011, an earthquake triggered a tsunami off the northeastern coast ofJapan, damaging the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant, which releasednuclear material into the Pacific ocean. Soon afterwards, South Korea raisedconcerns about food safety and imposed a ban on imports of Japanese seafoodfrom the Tohoku region of Honshu. Thestudy reported in this article examined the impact of the South Koreangovernment’s import bans of Japanese seafood on women in that economic sector. Thefocus of the study was a recent WTO decision to uphold the ban, in spite of thefact that Japan is able to prove the seafood meets safe, approved levels ofradiation. The research focussed on the effect of the ban and its continuationon the women involved in the sea-squirts industry in Miyagi prefecture ofTohoku. The article concludes that it is time for the WTO to consider theimpact of their decisions on women and take women’sissues into account during their decision making. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Global Trade and Customs Journal Kluwer Law International

What Are the Gender Impacts of the WTO on Local Communities?: South Korea’s Import Restriction on Sea-Squirts from Nuclear Affected Areas in Japan

Global Trade and Customs Journal , Volume 15 (5): 10 – May 1, 2020
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Abstract

In 2011, an earthquake triggered a tsunami off the northeastern coast ofJapan, damaging the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant, which releasednuclear material into the Pacific ocean. Soon afterwards, South Korea raisedconcerns about food safety and imposed a ban on imports of Japanese seafoodfrom the Tohoku region of Honshu. Thestudy reported in this article examined the impact of the South Koreangovernment’s import bans of Japanese seafood on women in that economic sector. Thefocus of the study was a recent WTO decision to uphold the ban, in spite of thefact that Japan is able to prove the seafood meets safe, approved levels ofradiation. The research focussed on the effect of the ban and its continuationon the women involved in the sea-squirts industry in Miyagi prefecture ofTohoku. The article concludes that it is time for the WTO to consider theimpact of their decisions on women and take women’sissues into account during their decision making.

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Global Trade and Customs Journal – Kluwer Law International

Published: May 1, 2020

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