Prime Minister Fumio Kishida urged China to lift its blanket ban on Japanese seafood imposed shortly after the discharge of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima plant into the sea began exactly one year ago on Saturday. China’s ban is a “measure that is not at all based on scientific evidence and is unacceptable,” Kishida told local fisheries cooperative officials in Fukushima Prefecture. “Japan urges an immediate repeal (of the ban) and makes the request at all levels.” A ministerial meeting will be held within a week to discuss responses to China’s ban ahead of the compilati…