Fukushima Cartoon From France Angers Japan

Japan is to complain formally about a cartoon that appeared in a French weekly newspaper following the announcement that Tokyo is to host the 2020 Olympics.

The cartoon, carried in the satirical Le Canard Enchaine, shows two sumo wrestlers with extra limbs in front of the Fukushima nuclear plant.

In the background, an announcer says: "Thanks to Fukushima, sumo is now an Olympic sport."

Another cartoon shows people in protective clothing by the side of a pool.

"This cartoon hurts the feelings of those who suffered through the Great East Japan Earthquake," said government spokesman and chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga, referring to the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that wrecked the Fukushima nuclear plant and triggered the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.

"It is inappropriate and gives a wrong impression of the Fukushima contaminated water issue. It is extremely regrettable."

The Fukushima plant is 160 miles north of Tokyo

Mr Suga said Japan would lodge the complaint through the French embassy in Tokyo and that the foreign ministry had been directed to "thoroughly explain the situation" to avoid similar incidents.

Japan was angered last year after a French broadcaster used a composite picture that showed Japanese national soccer team goalie Eiji Kawashima with four arms and the caption "Fukushima Effect" about a save he made in a game between the two nations.

The broadcaster subsequently apologised.

Japan was chosen to host the 2020 Olympics at the weekend, beating Madrid, Spain, and Istanbul, Turkey, despite concerns about leaking radioactive water at the stricken Fukushima plant around 160 miles north of Tokyo.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe assured the International Olympic Committee that the situation was "under control".

Despite his assurances, the crisis appears to show no signs of ending.

Levels of tritium - considered one of the least harmful radioactive elements - spiked more than 15 times in groundwater near a leaking tank over three days this week, the operator of the plant has revealed.

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