Japan, China, and South Korea agree to set up early notification system for nuclear emergencies

The Asahi Shimbun reports that the governments of China, Japan, and South Korea have agreed to hammer out clear rules for communicating information during nuclear power plant emergencies in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi catastrophe. Both China and South Korea loudly protested Tokyo Electric Power Company's decision to intentionally release large quantities of radioactively contaminated cooling water into the ocean in March.