Tse Chin-wan (, born 15 October 1957) is a Hong Kong government official, current the Secretary for Environment and Ecology. Tse studied at the

Tsuen Wan Government Secondary School Tsuen Wan Government Secondary School (TWGSS; or in short) is an EMI school, EMI co-education secondary school located at 70 Hoi Pa Street, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. The school building consists of the hall, the laboratory wing, the classroom wi ...

during the 1970s, and joined the government in June 1985 as an officer in the Environmental Protection Agency (now the

Environmental Protection Department Environmental Protection Department (EPD) is a department of Hong Kong Government concerning the issues of environmental protection in Hong Kong. The EPD is responsible for developing policies covering environmental protection, nature conser ...

). He was promoted to assistant director of the department in 1996 and deputy director in 2013. In 2017, he was appointed Under Secretary for Environment, and the newly created Secretary for Environment and Ecology in 2022.

Fukushima ban

Tse has caused a diplomatic row after he announced in July 2023 the ban on seafood imports from 10 Japanese prefectures over the

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of radioactive waste water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea.

Hirokazu Matsuno is a Japanese politician who served as the Chief Cabinet Secretary from October 2021 until December 2023. He is serving in the House of Representatives as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. Matsuno does not believe that the 1923 Kantō ...

, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary, said Hong Kong's import ban, which followed Chinese decisions, was "extremely regrettable". According to a Nikkei report, Naoto Nakahara, deputy consul general of Japan in Hong Kong, said the Hong Kong authorities are "trying to win brownie points from Beijing", and the consulate had "shifted gears" to rebut the Hong Kong government's narrative in a bid to "protect the interests of those selling Japanese food products in Hong Kong". Tse, in response, said the measures were devised according to the city's own assessment.

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