An aerial photo shows the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Incorporated in Fukushima Prefecture on 24 August 2023. Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant had started to release treated water stored within the premises of the plant into the ocean on the same day. Photo: TAKUYA MATSUMOTO / AFP
A professor of international law says it's possible for a country to take Japan to court.
This follows widespread backlash from nations dotted in and around the Pacific Ocean - opposing the start of a release of over one-million-tonnes of treated nuclear wastewater.
RNZ Pacific's Lydia Lewis spoke with Waikato University's Alexander Gillespie.
