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More than 100 fishermen and locals living near Fukushima will file a lawsuit this week seeking to stop the release of wastewater from the stricken Japanese nuclear plant, they said Monday.

Twelve years after one of the world's worst nuclear accidents, Japan began on August 24 discharging treated cooling water diluted with seawater into the Pacific, insisting it was safe.

The more than 100 plaintiffs in Fukushima and neighboring prefectures will file the lawsuit in the Fukushima District Court on Friday, Sugie Tanji, a member of the group's secretariat, told AFP.failed to keep to its promise of gaining agreement from fishermen before taking such a decision to release," she said.

"The release to the ocean can never be tolerated as it brings about further suffering to victims of the nuclear accident," it added. Japanese government offices and business have also been bombarded with thousands of nuisance calls from Chinese phone numbers.Japanese government officials have made efforts to reassure the public thatLast week, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and the US envoy to Japan, Rahm Emanuel, among others, ate Fukushima fish in front of TV cameras.Before the water release, China was Japan's biggest export destination for seafood and Beijing's ban has people in the sector worried.

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