The US envoy to Japan Rahm Emanuel tucks into Fukushima fish on Thursday, lending his backing to Tokyo in its spat with Beijing. China last week banned all seafood imports from its neighbour after Japan began releasing wastewater from Fukushima into the Pacific, accusing Tokyo of treating the ocean like a "sewer". "China’s blatant political actions and an act of economic coercion changes the dimension of this trip. Japan has over a decade done exactly the right things in a right way," he says. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES