Japan defends radioactive dumping

China Daily | Updated: 2011-04-06 08:04

Anti-nuclear protesters and a Japanese Buddhist monk protest outside Tokyo Electric Power Co's headquarters building in Tokyo on Tuesday. Tokyo Electric Power Co has given up plans to build two more nuclear reactors at its stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant. Yuriko Nakao / Reuters

TOKYO - Japan defended on Tuesday its dumping of thousands of tons of massive low-level radioactive water from the crisis-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, saying the action does not violate international law, and pledged to fully inform the international community of Tokyo's steps to tackle the ongoing emergency.